This is Part 2 of The Toxin Report by Dr Steve Nugent. If you somehow missed Part 1 it should be easy to find on The Health Gazette site.

The report is a collection of health related facts that should be quite thought provoking. Part 2 is the shortest so let's continue with this middle part now.

THE NUGENT TOXIN REPORT Presented by Dr. Steve Nugent (Continued: Part 2 of 3)

ORGANIC

The legal definition of organic is: Something composed, at least in part, of carbon molecules. This includes anything that is alive or was once alive. Under the legal definition, your leather pumps or wingtips qualify as organic. Organic does not necessarily mean clean or nutritious. Except in California, it is legal to spray with the most dangerous pesticides and still call the produce organic. California stipulates only that the pesticides found must not have been placed there 'on purpose.'

TOXINS IN YOUR TAP

It is estimated that 90% of all pharmaceutical drugs ingested are not metabolized, and leave the body in urine or feces.

Pharmaceutical drugs are now showing up in our tap and ground water!!! The first drug was found by accident. Scientists doing their routine tap water tests for pesticides in Berlin, Germany, found Clofibric Acid, a cholesterol-lowering drug. The instruments that found it were calibrated to identify pesticides!!... The scientists did not recognize the pattern, so they took it to a toxicology lab, which readily identified it.

Many other drugs have since been found in our wells and ground water: - Lipid lowering drugs - Analgesics - Chemotherapeutic drugs - Antibiotics - Hormones = 2E..Just to name a few

A summary article on 100 cities found identical results (Chemosphere, January1998).

Antibiotics: Stuart Levy, Director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University in Boston, MA, states:

"Our concentration of antibiotics is 1000 times higher than in Germany, high enough to affect the growth of E- Coli. This may be causing the bacteria to become medication resistant."

E-Coli has been discovered in the drinking water of some major and minor US cities.

Estrogen: Shane Snyder of Michigan State University found enough estrogen (mostly from birth control pills) in Lake Mead to cause male fish to produce female egg protein, and to attempt to lay eggs that they were not equipped to lay. Disbelieving the results, Mr. Snyder repeated his tests 30 times.

Acceptable levels of chemicals and pollutants are a lot lower than you have been told. High acceptable levels are allowed because no one knows how to solve the problem. "The amount of estrogen needed to feminize a human embryo, essentially turning a baby boy into a baby girl, is the same ratio as one drop of gin in 700 railway cars of tonic water. ", Orlando Sentinel 2/98

Breast reduction surgery is at a peak in teenage and young adult males.

Male fertility has significantly decreased in the last 20 years.

No filtering system on the market today removes pharmaceutical drugs from drinking water - none!!!

CLIMBING HEALTH STATISTICS:

- ALL degenerative diseases are on the rise.

- Disease is regularly occurring at younger ages.

- Infants and children are contracting catastrophic illnesses at increasing rates.

- In the last 20 years, in spite of billions of dollars spent on research, cancer has moved from the number 8 killer of Americans to the number 2 killer.

- In 1900, 5% of the US population died of heart disease, cancer, or diabetes. Today, 95% of us will die from any combination of these causes. Do we really want to just keep doing what 95% of us are doing?

In the next and final part of this report Dr Nugent presents ways of dealing with the challenges that toxins present.