Environment and Health

Celebrating Earth Day The 43rd Anniversary of Earth Day is April 22, 2013. The world is still in greater peril. Earth Day can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Networking Earth Day is about reaching those who want to make a personal commitment to sustainability. Earth Day is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. We have tips on what you can do to better your environment around you. Find articles on 100's of ways to make your life and environment greener! Learn how water in your home can be a helpful negative ion generator! Learn how to incorporate Energy Medicine in your life. Declutter and organize your environment for better health with Feng Shui. *Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.

The excessive abuse of our environment plays an intergral part in how we live our lives and ultimately a major factor in determining our own health and healing. Environmental issues such as worldwide pollution, the garbage disposal and landfills, and the toxic waste seeping into the ground and our water supply, have become staggering statistics.

Along with polluting our air and warming our climate, the exploration, extraction, and use of fossil fuels can cause incredible damage to water and land resources. Oil spills destroy plant and animal life, and leave waterways and their surrounding shores uninhabitable for long periods of time. In addition, strip mining for coal deposits devastates landscapes by reducing mountaintops and filling-in valleys and streams. There are many things we can do about it!

Polluting The Temple

The temple, our physical body, is the only thing we have to carry the soul. When our physical bodies are not in proper working order, everything around us ultimately suffers. Our good health is all we have that stands between us and the aging process. The more our air, food and water are taxed and altered, our body has to work harder to cleanse itself. The longer we keep our physical body in optimum health, the longer we have our temple to keep our soul on this plane. Detoxification is the best way to keep the body at its most ultimate working level.

Symptoms such as frequent or reoccurring colds, feeling heavy, sluggish or tired, poor skin, acne or other related skin problems, allergies, a thick, coated tongue, bad breath, headache, and feelings of gas and being bloated after meals may indicate problems in the body's functionality and it's ability to process, digest and excrete properly. These vague symptoms that are often overlooked tend to be the results of a congested and sluggish body system.

Exposure or toxicity to food additives, solvents, pesticides, herbicides and other toxic chemicals can cause a number of psychological and neurological symptoms. Toxins produced by bacteria in the gut can be absorbed, causing significant disruption of body functions. Toxins that the body are unable to eliminate build up in the tissues, typically in our fat stores.

Man-made electromagnetic fields bombard us constantly on a daily basis. Computers, microwaves, X Ray machines, TV, cell phones and antennas are just a few of the low and high frequency electromagnetic fields the continue to assult us as our population grows and the need to advance technology at the speed of light increases. Learn more about electromagnetic fields and the World Health Organizations's EMF program.

Consider Andrew's safe and effective Detox System for helping the body to thoroughly cleanse itself, in order to improve our system's inner environment for healing.

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The Peacefulmind Complete Detox System Cleansing your body from the inside out is a great place to start for releasing stored toxins, expelling them through the organs of elimination: the skin, as well as the intestines, liver, lungs, kidneys, and lymphatic system! We are proud of this wonderful system which includes: * Information on WHY we detox our system * HOW to gently cleansing your organs * WHEN to detox your system in order to maximize your body's healing potential. We include: * Andrew's booklet: "100 Ways to Detox Safely and Naturally" * Internal cleansing and detoxification recipes * 4 oz Detox AromaThera-Tea: This powerful formula will help remove accumulated toxins in the body. Strong antioxidant, cleanses the colon, reduces cramps, and stimulates circulation. Rosehips, Red Clover, Ginger, Nettle, Alfalfa, Dandelion, Goldenseal Leaf, Echinacea, Pan D'Arco, Burdock, Clove, Stevia. * A Tea Ball for a single cup of tea * Our Angel's Mist Essential Oil Detox Bath Blend : this phenomenal blend of essential oils helps in detoxing the lungs and the body's largest organ: the skin. Product Name:The Peacefulmind Complete Detox System- $59.95 Add to Cart * Send a Check or Money Order

Energy Medicine All healing involves energy or the exchange of energy around us. Our environment plays a large part in this. Search through our energy medicine to find Chakra products, Aura cleansing, Reiki products and homestudy courses. Get information on and book an appointment for acupuncture, including Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture facials, eastern nutrition, mind medicine and weight control help. Incorporate color therapy into your life with our color therapy kits, analysis of your color choices and additional color therapy products. Experience massage therapy and find tools such as massage tables, oils, lotions and accessories. Create your own spa in the privacy of your own home. Indulge yourself in our body sprays, toners, pearl cream, body salts and rich body oils. Incorporate the power of yoga energy in your life with our online yoga class and find great yoga gifts such as our meditation kit, deluxe incense set, bolsters, blankets and candles for relaxing.

Feng Shui Your Environment Feng Shui (pronounced Fung Shway) is the ancient Chinese art of placement to enhance the flow of "vital life energy" known as Qi. Practitioners believe that rooms, buildings and all environments can be arranged and decorated in a way that maximizes the flow of Qi and, resulting in improvements to health and happiness of those who live in that environment. Want to know more?

Seasonal Health Our environment is constantly changing around us. Learning to take advantage of what each season offers us is the key to adjusting to it's climactic effects. Each environmental factor offers a different challenge. Search through our seasonal medicine to discover great tips for the impact of summer, fall,. winter, spring and even late summer.

Our Earth Connection Some of the most amazing tools for healing, are the treasures the earth provides us! Crystals and Gemstones are one of the most beautiful, mystical and profound "energy medicine" tools, which have been used for centuries throughout all cultures, religions and empires. Andrew has one of the most extensive collections of crystals and crystal information on the Internet. Search through our tumblestones, crystal jewelry, spheres, clusters, crystal fountains, or unique crystals and specialty gifts.

Electromagnetic Fields

Electromagnetic fields are present everywhere in our environment but are invisible to the human eye. Electric fields can be produced by the local build-up of electric charges in the atmosphere associated with thunderstorms. They are also produced by man-made sources including X-rays, the electricity that comes out of every power socket, various kinds of higher frequency radio waves via TV antennas, computers, microwaves, radio stations or mobile phone base stations.

Effects on the general health of the public have attributed a diffuse collection of symptoms to low levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields at home. Reported symptoms include headaches, anxiety, suicide and depression, nausea, fatigue and loss of libido.

Key Points

The electromagnetic spectrum encompasses both natural and human-made sources of electromagnetic fields.

Frequency and wavelength characterize an electromagnetic field. In an electromagnetic wave, these two characteristics are directly related to each other: the higher the frequency the shorter the wavelength. Ionizing radiation such as X-ray and gamma-rays consists of photons which carry sufficient energy to break molecular bonds. Photons of electromagnetic waves at power and radio frequencies have much lower energy that do not have this ability.

Electric fields exist whenever charge is present and are measured in volts per metre (V/m). Magnetic fields arise from current flow. Their flux densities are measured in microtesla or millitesla .

At radio and microwave frequencies, electric and magnetic fields are considered together as the two components of an electromagnetic wave. Power density, measured in watts per square metre (W/m2), describes the intensity of these fields.

Low frequency and high frequency electromagnetic waves affect the human body in different ways.

Electrical power supplies and appliances are the most common sources of low frequency electric and magnetic fields in our living environment. Everyday sources of radio frequency electromagnetic fields are telecommunications, broadcasting antennas and microwave ovens.

A wide range of environmental influences causes biological effects. 'Biological effect' does not equal 'health hazard'. Special research is needed to identify and measure health hazards.

At low frequencies, external electric and magnetic fields induce small circulating currents within the body. In virtually all ordinary environments, the levels of induced currents inside the body are too small to produce obvious effects.

The main effect of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields is heating of body tissues.

There is no doubt that short-term exposure to very high levels of electromagnetic fields can be harmful to health. Current public concern focuses on possible long-term health effects caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields at levels below those required to trigger acute biological responses.

WHO's International EMF Project was launched to provide scientifically sound and objective answers to public concerns about possible hazards of low level electromagnetic fields.

Despite extensive research, to date there is no evidence to conclude that exposure to low level electromagnetic fields is harmful to human health.

The focus of international research is the investigation of possible links between cancer and electromagnetic fields, at power line and radio frequencies.

References:

1. World Health Organization: EMF Project.

Earth Day Inspiration Earth Day is in April! One of the most unique ways of bringing our attention to the earth is through the awareness of music. The power of nature, the elements of fire, water, earth, air and her greatest geography has been captured so poignantly and majestically through the broad strokes of the song writer's imagination. Here are some of the most impressive soundscapes to celebrate mother earth! 1. Pastoral Symphony No. 6, Ludwig van Beethoven 2. The Four Seasons: La Primavera (Spring)Antonio Vivaldi 3. The Four Seasons: L'Autunno (Autumn)Antonio Vivaldi 4. The Four Seasons: L'Estate (Summer)Antonio Vivaldi 5. The Four Seasons: L'Inverno (Winter)Antonio Vivaldi 6. Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland 7. The Banks of Green Willow, St. Martin in the Fields 8. 4 Sea Interludes: Sunday Morning, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic 9. Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Budapest Philharmonic 10. By the River, Frederick Delius 11. Stillness lies in nature's realm, English String Quartet 12. Raindrop Prélude , Vladimir Horowitz 13. Air On A G String , Johann Sebastian Bach 14. The Firebird Suite, Igor Stravinsky 15. Night on Bald Mountain, Leonard Bernstein 16. Pines Of Rome, Ottorino Respighi 17. Desert Skies, Scott August 18. Grand Canyon Suite : Sunrise, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra 19. Above The Moon Earth Rises, Choir of the Abbey Tewkesbury 20. For the beauty of the earth, Choristers Of St Paul's Cathedral

What We Can Do

Johns Hopkins Institutions Health Safety & Environment has compiled some wonderful references and phone numbers for such things as chemical spills, hazardous material and how to dispose of them properly, indoor air quality and much more: Johns Hopkins Institutions Health Safety & Environment.

Research

In 1996 at Harvard Medical School, expansion of the environmental education at the medical school was put into place to further investigate and promote awareness of the human health consequences of global environmental change.

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity is a project of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). More than 60 scientists from several industrialized and developing countries are involved. They have spent the last few years compiling what is known about the complex relationship between biodiversity and human health. Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

Climate Change Futures: Health, Economic, and Ecological Dimensions

Concerns about climate change are often placed into the distant future. But the health and financial impacts of climate instability are already affecting many nations and economies. Climate change affects human health and economics via many pathways. Climate Change Futures: Health, Economic, and Ecological Dimensions

Air, Water & Radiation Protection Policy and Guidance.

Pesticides, Human Health and the Environment.

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