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The Truth On SLS http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/04/237/ http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/04/237/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:04:50 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/04/237/
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate(SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate(SLES) are used as foaming and thickening agents in many of the body care products we use everyday. Almost everything that foams or lathers uses these chemicals because they are very cheap to use. And the scary thing is there are around 100 chemical derivatives of these agents that all have different names so it is very hard to know what you are using. In other words these agents may be hiding under different names.

Anybody that has any skin sensitivity at all should stay far away from these products. Many reports have been published about the very irritating properties of these agents. Some soap has concentrations of up to 30% which are very irritating and dangerous. These chemicals cannot be metabolized by the liver so they twill build up in concentrations in the body and ultimately cause toxicity in many people.

Studies show that these agents penetrate into the eyes, brain, heart and liver. They are retained in body tissue. These studies also show evidence of preventing young children’s eyes from developing properly and contributing to cataract development in adults. The bottom line is that because of the penetrating power of these agents they are believed by many experts to be known carcinogens.

There are many body care lines on the market that do not use these chemicals, or if they do use them they use them in far smaller quantities. Yes, they often cost a little bit more and are sometimes harder to find, but isn’t your health and well being worth it? Or you can use the conventional products half the time and use the more expensive natural products the other half. This will at least cut your exposure to these toxins in half.

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]]> http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/04/237/feed/ 1 House Plants for Cleaner Air http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/04/178/ http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/04/178/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:31:51 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=178 Houseplants can be very beneficial in our lives. They purify and renew our stale indoor air by filtering out toxins, pollutants and the carbon dioxide we exhale - replacing them with life sustaining oxygen!

Common indoor plants may also provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only decorative, but NASA scientists are also finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings.

Not only do plants provide us with fresh oxygen like we have always known. The real power of plants may be their amazing ability to remove unhealthy chemicals from our indoor air. Studies have shown that the atmosphere in rooms filled with houseplants typically contains between 50% to 60% fewer mold spores and bacteria.

House plants absorb chemicals in the air via microscopic leaf openings called stomata. Once absorbed inside, the plant either breaks down the pollutant in question, or it sends the contaminant down to its roots where it’s released as food for the colonies of microbes that typically live in a plant’s root zone.

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I was at a nutritional supplement seminar last week and all the guest speakers were ranting about all the toxins in our environment and how it was such a bleak picture for humanity. Then last night on Letterman I saw the man who is blowing the horn regarding the two Texas sized plastic garbage area that is out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

With so many people out there saying the sky is falling with concern about all the chemicals and toxins in our environment, I just want to remind people of one undisputable fact among all the environmental hysteria. The fact is that human life expectancy continues to go up year after year. In the year 1900 the average human life expectancy was around 50 years old and today it is almost 80 years old.

I am not saying the environment does not need to be protected and I am not saying that we should not be doing much better to keep out only planet clean. But fact are facts and the fact is that we keep living longer. If the world is really so toxic and dangerous than how can this be possible? I sometimes think people just like to have something to worry about.

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Best Tasting Children’s Vitamin http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/03/best-tasting-children%e2%80%99s-vitamin/ http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/03/best-tasting-children%e2%80%99s-vitamin/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:02:01 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=129 If you have picky kids that hate taking vitamins try Nordic Berries by Nordic Naturals. They are the on multi-vitamin that all kids and adults love. I have sampled this product to hundreds of children and they all want it immediately. It is not the cheapest vitamin in the world. It will cost you double the amount of Flintstones and the like, but it is an all natural product and is worth the price if your kids want to take their vitamins for a change. The trouble is the parents might eat them all.

]]> http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/03/best-tasting-children%e2%80%99s-vitamin/feed/ 0 Fish Oil Is Magic for Your Childs Brain http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/fish-oil-is-magic-for-your-childs-brain/ http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/fish-oil-is-magic-for-your-childs-brain/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:44:48 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=73 Fish Oil for kids is the correct answer to ensure your child’s mental development is at maximum potential from the start of pregnancy all the way into adulthood. Maybe you want to improve or prevent ADD/ADHD, bad moods, poor concentration, bad vision, and other disorders. Here is some explanation as to why low omega 3 fatty acids and children’s health are related, the new children's behaviors we can expect with an adequate fish oil supply, and why pregnant and lactating mothers should supplement with omega 3.

Omega 3 fatty acids and children’s mental health may offer an explanation as to why all these mental disorders are increasing at a fast pace in our society.  The human rain is about 60% fat by weight, DHA is one of the two essential fatty acids that form the fish oil omega 3 and is the most abundant fat in the brain.

Imagine a child learning at school. The process of learning requires the brain to form new neural connections. DHA is needed in this building process, especially for the delicate neural synapses which are composed entirely of DHA. This child, like the vast majority of U.S. children, eats almost no Omega-3 fatty acids. What does the brain do? Again, it struggles and finally uses other types of fats, which are the wrong type Trans Fats or omega 6.

DHA is particularly important for fetuses and infants; the DHA content of the infant's brain triples during the first three months of life. Optimal levels of DHA are therefore crucial for pregnant and lactating mothers. Unfortunately, the average DHA content of breast milk in the United States is the lowest in the world, most likely because Americans eat comparatively little fish.

The good news is that if you begin to supply adequate amounts of fish oil for kids, they will react quickly to this improved nutrition. Do your children a great favor and make sure they are getting a good omega 3 supplement in their daily diet.

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