TOXICITY: Up to 5 lbs of Chemicals Absorbed per Year from Women's Make-up

From Mercola.com

Women who use make-up on a daily basis can absorb almost 5 pounds of chemicals into their bodies each year.

Some of the compounds present in make-up have been linked to side effects ranging from skin irritation to cancer.

One class of cosmetic chemicals which could be dangerous are parabens. Traces of parabens have been found in breast tumor samples.

Another chemical, sodium lauryl sulfate, can cause skin irritation.

Nine out of ten women also use out-of-date lipstick and mascara, which can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria. Read More

Toxicity Connection in Diabetes

From Oxford Journals/ Toxicological Sciences
Nicole Burns ¹ and Barry Gold ^{1 *}


Type 1 diabetes in humans arises from the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic -cells and typically presents in childhood. Genetic susceptibility is an underlying cause, but environmental agents, i.e., toxins and viruses, are postulated to be initiating factors. Read More

Can Drugs for Arthritis Have Harmful Levels of Toxicity?

From the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Contributed by The Department of Medicine, Standford School of Medicine, CA

OBJECTIVE. To compare the toxicities of commonly employed disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS. Toxicity Index scores, computed from symptoms, laboratory abnormalities, and hospitalizations attributable to DMARD therapy, were assessed in 2,747 patients. Read More