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There are many sources of air pollution. Some are natural, such as smoke from naturally caused forest fires, dust from soil, ash from volcanoes, meteorological phenomena, natural gas, terpenes (a class of unsaturated hydrocarbons found in plants), and ammonia from biological decomposition. Most air pollution is human-caused. There are petrochemicals from transportation, such as buses, cars, planes, and transport trucks. Fuel combustion factories, refineries and power plants, as well as industrial manufacturing facilities, spew out toxic chemicals in droves.

Diamond, The Fit for Life Solution, p. 61. 29. ” Health ‘N’ Vitality, February 2002, p. 20. indd vi 2/2/08 6:10:50 PM C H A P T E R 3 You Are What You Breathe, Think, and Do Search for the cure within the cause; the body itself is the best healer. Plato (c. ) In this chapter you will learn • The effects of what you think about all day long • How unmanaged stress creates toxins in your body • That there are thousands of toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke, including second-hand smoke • The many sources of air pollution • That your household cleaners are not as safe as you may think • Chemicals in your hair-care and body-care products and cosmetics are rapidly absorbed through your body’s largest detoxification organ Chapter : You Are What You Breathe, Think, and Do |  YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK AND FEEL Most people are already aware that almost every day a new miracle compound is found in fresh fruits and vegetables and that people who eat large amounts of produce reap the health benefits of doing so.

This is quite an alarming discovery because research showed that PCBs were (and still are) powerful carcinogens and as a result were banned in the 1970s in both Canada and the United States. Some government organizations claim that trace amounts of PCBs are fine. But one organization’s trace amounts are another’s poison. Consider that Health Canada and the United States Food and Drug Administration argue that foods with less than two thousand parts per billion (ppb) of PCBs are fine to eat. On the other side of the coin, the United States Environmental Protection Agency states that levels as low as fifty parts per billion are associated with an increased risk of cancer.