Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Just as refineries send trucks filled with petroleum to factories to be turned into everything from plastic to petroleum jelly, your liver sends particles containing cholesterol into your bloodstream for your cells to use.
Imagine what would happen if a refinery flooded the roads with tankers, sending out far more supply than was needed. Day after day,
Is It My Genes?
Rick was 45 when he came to our office looking for help. He was not terribly optimistic that a diet change could really help him. His father had had diabetes and heart disease, and his own cholesterol had been high for years. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Sorbic acid, the only actual preservative in Twinkies, comes from petroleum.
THE INHALATIONS OF MODERN LIFE
The World Health Organization estimates that 4.6 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution, both indoor and outdoor. Worldwide more deaths per year are linked to air pollution than to automobile accidents. Health effects range from subtle biochemical and physiological changes to difficulty breathing; aggravation of existing respiratory and cardiac conditions; birth defects; damage to the immune, neurological, or reproductive system; and cancer. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Nylon, commercially introduced in the 1940s, was the harbinger of a slew of new synthetic textiles, many of which are based on petroleum by-products. These feedstocks, although obtained from a nontenewable resource, have been priced inexpensively, even relative to cotton, the cheapest natural textile, and to cellulose pulp, the feedstock for rayon.
Thus, in the postwar era, cotton and rayon both began to face serious competition from polyester and its petrochemical synthetic btethren. Underscoring the weakness in the rayon industry, the one U.S. |
| From the American petroleum Insritute's perspective, hexane was still an attractive commodity to market, since it too is an abundant by-product of petrochemical refining.
Hexane, at first, was considered a rather innocuous solvent. Like most hydrocarbons, at higher levels of exposure it has an alcohol-like effect, inducing lightheadedness, giddiness, or even drunkenness. Limits on workplace exposure were based on this effect alone, allowing inhalation at levels fifty times as concentrated as the old benzene standard, even as lax as that was. |
David Steinman
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 The advantages over petroleum that had once been latent were now glaring at us with gleaming eyes. When corn-based containers are used at large corporate and sporting events, they can be collected and industrially composted just like table scraps to produce soil amendment. We're talking corn here.
"These corn-based polymers degrade like corn or tomatoes would if you compost them," Rosenthal said.
"In addition, NatureWorks also purchases back its own materials and easily turns them back into lactic acid for reuse," Buckles said. |
Hyla Cass
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 Mineral oil, a petroleum derivative, acts as an intestinal lubricant. It also coats food particles as well as the lower intestinal walls, mechanically interfering with nutrient absorption. It depletes the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as beta-carotene, calcium, and phosphorus. It should not be combined with stool softeners, which may increase its absorption into the body—not good, since mineral oil is toxic when taken internally. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| The American petroleum Institute, which was not convinced by the benzene body count, had its day in court. On 2 July 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court voided the benzene limit on the grounds that OSHA had not sufficiently quantified its claims of benzene's dangers. It was an anniversary of sorts. On a July day exactly seventy-one years earlier, in a Baltimore hospital less than fifty miles away from the Supreme Court building where the decision was handed down, the fourteen-year-old glue worker had lain dying from benzene-caused anemia. |
Alex Steffen
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 Researchers and automakers are looking to electrify the drivetrain, powering vehicles only with electricity and motors, rather than with petroleum fuel and combustion engines. Several years ago, most people would have said that hydrogen-powered cars were the only solution—and exciting new developments from manufacturers like Honda have restored faith not only in hydrogen cars but also in a future hydrogen economy. However, hydrogen development is more challenging than had originally been anticipated, and will clearly be slow to yield workable results. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here are some of its ingredients: petroleum products, processed salt, nerve toxins and chemicals that, in a different variation, are used to pave roads. Similarly, people have no idea what's in their powdered coffee creamer. It's almost pure hydrogenated oils and corn syrup solids. That's it. It's just sugar and plastic fat. I believe instant creamer delivers instant harm to the health of anyone foolish enough to put it in their coffee. |
Alex Steffen
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| Biodiesel can be used as a direct substitute for petroleum diesel, either in blends, or neat (called B100). Diesel engines require no modifications to run on biodiesel. A diesel engine running biodiesel is efficient and clean. Co-ops, producers, and distributors around the nation sell high-quality biodiesel for anywhere from $2.50 to $3.90 per gallon.
Straight vegetable oil (SVO) can be used as a fuel substitute in a diesel engine. Unlike biodiesel, SVO is not processed and transformed before use. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Do not use petroleum jelly to lubricate the tip of the bag.
For best results, use a plain water enema before using the ProFlora whey enema, as this makes it easier to retain the solution for the necessary period of time. Do not use this type of enema on a daily basis. Limit it to three times a year.
To replace the friendly bacteria in the colon, do a probi-otic retention enema after the ProFlora whey enema. Open up 8 capsules of Kyo-Dophilus from Wakunaga and add the contents to 1 cup of lukewarm (body-temperature) water. |
Alex Steffen
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| It's hard to believe, but the average shampoo bottle is made virtually 100 percent from petroleum products, from the soap inside, to the bottle containing it, to the ink printed on the bottle. But we can buy bottles made from recycled plastic, printed with nontoxic ink, and containing natural cleansing agents without spending more money.
Paper Products: Besides the wastefulness and disposability of toilet paper, napkins, and paper towels, there are broader environmental implications associated with these products. |
| Mineral oil is the more conventional ingredient for wood treatment, but it is derived from petroleum and it off-gases toxins.) Other alternative household cleaners include grain alcohol as a solvent instead of toxic butyl Cellosolve, and plant-oil disinfectants such as eucalyptus, rosemary, or sage rather than triclosan, which is found in everything from detergents and soaps to lotions and mouthwashes. |
| After all, they're made of a renewable raw material—unlike, say, plastic bags, each of which sends a dollop of petroleum on a one-way trip to the dump. But the devil is in the details. Factors such as economic desperation, lax regulation, and greed have conspired to make logging a problematic venture for both wildlife and humans.
Some environmentalists would have us believe that every logging job is as bad as a clear-cut—that parkland is the only good use of a forest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Saccharin is a noncaloric petroleum derivative estimated to be three hundred to five hundred times sweeter than sugar… It's used in diet soft drinks… Studies done in the 1970s linked saccharin ingestion to bladder cancer in laboratory animals"
"Children who drink large quantities of diet sodas containing aspartame are particularly vulnerable to its dangerous side effects."
"Aspartame contains methyl or wood alcohol, which can affect fetal brain development."
"Twenty-one percent of the sugar in the American diet comes from soft drinks! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Saccharin is a noncaloric petroleum derivative estimated to be three hundred to five hundred times sweeter than sugar… It's used in diet soft drinks… Studies done in the 1970s linked saccharin ingestion to bladder cancer in laboratory animals"
"Children who drink large quantities of diet sodas containing aspartame are particularly vulnerable to its dangerous side effects."
"Aspartame contains methyl or wood alcohol, which can affect fetal brain development."
"Twenty-one percent of the sugar in the American diet comes from soft drinks! |
Alex Steffen
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| Many auto companies are working on short-term solutions: high-profile hybrids (quickly becoming Hollywood's trendy new accessory); more efficient gasoline engines; cleaner-burning diesel engines; and biofuels and synthetic fuels to substitute for petroleum. Right now, our choices matter more than ever—every time we go to the showroom and drive a hybrid instead of an SUV off the lot, we send a message to automakers to keep the new solutions coming.
The long-term solution is likely electric, whether the electricity is provided by a super-efficient battery or by a hydrogen fuel cell. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I just need to clean it?" The petroleum industry wants to keep selling you more oil. Now, there are two problems with that. First, it's just basically dishonest, when in reality you don't need to change your oil; you just need to clean it. Secondly, it creates an environmental hazard because we have all this old, used oil being disposed of all around the country, and a lot of it ends up in landfills, or even in just regular household garbage. Some of it ends up poured into streams or rivers. Some people just pour it down the drain. |
Jacky Law
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 Like guardians of a strategic petroleum reserve,' he writes, 'fat coordinates how, when and where the body's energy supply is stored and how and when it is mobilized. Fat also emits signals that can unleash, or damp down, the immune system. Fat influences when blood clots and when blood vessels constrict. Fat even tells the body when it can reproduce, and when it must await more favorable conditions. And perhaps most insidiously, fat cells most likely beget new fat cells, perpetuating their existence and magnifying their effects.'33
There seems no limit to the influence of fat. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The quinine-substitute search dares from the 1830s, dyestuffs from the 1850s, explosives from the 1860s, saccharin,
1892, aspirin, 1904, viscose from the 1910s, synthetic rubber and petroleum from the 1920s, pvc, nylon, sulfa drugs from the 1930s. All through the voyage cf discovery, the pathway was involved, circuitous, often futile; as in the physical "discovery" of the world by Europeans, there were rar more disappointments, mostly forgotten, than successes; as in the physical voyages, it was often the by-product that proved to be more significant than the stated aim of the pioneer. |
| In explosives or fertilizers, in war gases, in synthetic textiles, rubber, and "plastic," in dyestuffs and pharmaceuticals, in synthetic petroleum, Ehrlich and his pupils would enable Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany to lead the world. The chemical industry in Germany survived defeat in World War I, poor government and inflation in the early 1920s, and even slump from 1929-34. The industry did not survive the Nazis. Within a year of the achievement of power by Hitler, the (mostly Jewish) successors of Ehrlich (himself a Jew) were emigrating for their lives. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 They are called PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) and are found in auto exhaust, factory smoke stacks, petroleum tar products and tobacco smoke, among other processes common to an industrial society. Unlike the PCBs and dioxins, when we consume PAHs (in food and water), we can metabolize and excrete them. But there is a snag: when the PAHs are metabolized within the body, they produce intermediate products that react with DNA to form tightly bound complexes, or adducts (see chapter three). This is the first step in causing cancer. |
Peter Radetsky
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 Besides the use of petroleum for fuel, petroleum (kerosene, diesel, and leaded gasoline) was used for heating, and petroleum products including diesel fuels were used to keep down sand and dust. And beginning in late February of r99r, military personnel in Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia were exposed to oil-well fires.
• Sand and dust. Respiratory problems were reported in almost one-third of those who served in the Gulf. Ultra-fine sand embedded in the lungs might be the reason why. Pesticides. The use of pesticides in the Gulf was unrestricted and widespread. |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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 In addition, a controlled, unblinded study (n=12) found that finger abrasions treated with 50% fresh aloe vera gel in petroleum jelly healed faster than those treated with petroleum jelly alone.31 Most of these early studies were not blinded or controlled and involved only very small numbers of participants.
Early studies also demonstrated that aloe vera gel was an effective treatment of thermal burns. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 The drawback to using Vicks against dandruff is that the base is petroleum jelly. Washing this goo out of hair could be a real challenge!
People have tried a lot of different techniques to get petrolatum out of hair. The one technique that appears to be most reliable, and easiest, is to work mineral oil into the glop to "cut" it and then wash that out with shampoo or with Dawn dish detergent. It may take several latherings. Some folks are willing to try this treatment repeatedly, but many find that once is enough to convince them to try another method.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There's no incentive for anybody from the petroleum industry to show you how to reuse the same oil over and over again.
But I'll give you a hint on how to do this yourself: If you're handy with mechanics, you can clean your own oil by pumping it under high pressure through a cellulose filtration device otherwise known as toilet paper. Check it out yourself at Ralph Wood Bypass Filters. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Stay away from the artificial petroleum stuff. Stay away from the brand-name cosmetics and go with the small, natural companies that have products that can really make a difference. Because, I agree that sometimes in the professional world, you're in situations where you need to have some lipstick on, or you need to have eye shadow. That's expected by your coworkers, and that's fine. I'm not saying you should walk into every situation without any makeup. However, if you're going to use makeup, use the natural stuff, and don't rely on makeup to change your personal appearance in the long run. |
Peter Radetsky
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| Besides the use of petroleum for fuel, petroleum (kerosene, diesel, and leaded gasoline) was used for heating, and petroleum products including diesel fuels were used to keep down sand and dust. And beginning in late February of r99r, military personnel in Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia were exposed to oil-well fires.
• Sand and dust. Respiratory problems were reported in almost one-third of those who served in the Gulf. Ultra-fine sand embedded in the lungs might be the reason why. Pesticides. The use of pesticides in the Gulf was unrestricted and widespread. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Hollender: Wherever possible, we're using vegetable as opposed to petroleum ingredients. We will only use ingredients that are known to be safe, so we need thorough affirmative proof that the chemical is not even suspected of having any health or environmental problems. Specific products like our auto dish detergent don't have phosphates or chlorine. Generally, none of the products we make have any chlorine in them. Chlorine is probably the greatest concern to us and we know from an industrial perspective how dangerous it is. |
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