| I have had countless women ask me about the | | | | We live in a very toxic culture and an incredibly toxic |
| validity of the connection between breast cancer and | | | | time on our planet, where dangerous chemicals |
| drinking water from plastic bottles. The questions and | | | | surround us every second of the day. To isolate one |
| concern rose astronomically around the time that the | | | | toxic component, like heated plastic water bottles, is |
| media announced that Sheryl Crow developed breast | | | | a rookie move. I understand that it was probably |
| cancer as a result of drinking water from plastic | | | | meant to help many people. But, again, taken out of |
| bottles she had a habit of leaving out in her hot car. | | | | context, this is ridiculous and lacks much value. |
| This was almost too silly for me to respond to... but it | | | | As an interesting side note: Yesterday was 94 |
| has just enough validity that thousands of women | | | | degrees where I live. As I was stopped at a light, I |
| would believe it in it's out-of-context form. | | | | noticed that both gas stations on the corner were |
| Have plastics been linked to cancer, especially | | | | storing cases upon cases of plastic water bottles |
| hormonal cancers like breast and prostate? You bet! | | | | outside on the sidewalk... in the blazing sun! Lovely. |
| What frightened me about this email circulating | | | | Our health and our ability to prevent and heal from |
| around the world wide web was that many people | | | | disease are all dependent on the millions of |
| would read it and either stop drinking bottled water, | | | | overlapping factors that comprise how we move |
| or stop drinking bottled water that they had left in | | | | (exercise, stretching, proprioception, rest, breathing, |
| their cars... and they'd erroneously think they were | | | | etc.), how we eat (healthy foods, nutritional |
| "good to go". | | | | complements, cleansing and detoxification, etc.) and |
| The issue of toxic xenoestrogens and plastics goes | | | | how we think (mental, emotional, spiritual, social and |
| FAR beyond water bottles. Consider: food storage, | | | | relationship health). |
| cooking in the microwave using plastic containers or | | | | Our levels of purity and sufficiency in these 3 lifestyle |
| plastic wrap, packaging of processed foods, the | | | | categories must always exceed our levels of toxicity |
| off-gassing of every plastic item in our homes... the | | | | and deficiency in order for us to experience true |
| list goes on and on. Of course we also know that | | | | health. When we make excessive lifestyle choices |
| water itself is not the culprit in those plastic bottles... | | | | that are toxic or deficient, it's near-impossible to |
| fruit juice, pop, sports drinks, kids' drinks... if it's in | | | | meet our body's innate genetic requirements for |
| plastic, it's toxic. (Add to that the toxicity of the | | | | health. In fact, we move away from health. That's |
| ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and artificial | | | | how the doors are opened for the expression of |
| sweeteners in those other drinks and, YIKES! Now | | | | dis-ease. |
| you've got some real causes for the body to move | | | | It's not plastic water bottles, per say. It's not enough |
| away from health and toward dis-ease!) | | | | health. |