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  October 2020

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Glossary: EI: Environmental Illness, MCS: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, EHS/ ES: Electro-Hypersensitivity

Flooring Tips

Carpets can cause all kinds of allergies. They are a haven for dust mites and are usually treated with all kinds of chemicals like moth and stain propellants, fire retardants etc. Invest in a good hoover, preferably one designed for allergies, and use it regularly. People with Electromagnetic-Hypersensitivity (EHS) might find it helpful to use an extra long hose so they can stand further away from the hoover. Change the dust bag regularly and consider cleaning the carpet with steam which will help remove the chemicals. Older carpets may be better tolerated. Some people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) might not be able to tolerate any carpets at all. In this case oiled floorboards are a reasonable option.

Recipe: Carrot and Yellow Split Pea Soup
Corn,egg, gluten, lactose, milk, nut, peanut, sesame, soya & wheat free

 A very easy, healthy and tasty soup. Ideal for the autumn weather. Click here for the full recipe.

Thanks go to FoodsMatter for kindly letting us reproduce this recipe.

Eddie Van Halen Issued Warning about EMFs and Cancer Before his Untimely Death

Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang announced recently on Twitter that his famous Dad had lost his arduous, years-long battle with cancer. TMZ reports that Van Halen passed away at a Santa Monica hospital with his two sons and wife Janie by his side. Actress Valerie Bertinelli, Van Halen’s ex-wife, shared their son’s heartbreaking message on her own account. The two were married for 20 years. In 2015, Van Halen revealed in a Billboard magazine interview that the cancer started in his tongue.

Treatment for the condition required surgery, which removed one-third of the tongue. Tragically, the cancer continued to slowly spread, later metastasizing to his oesophagus. Though a heavy smoker for many years, Van Halen surprisingly did not blame cigarettes because his lungs were totally free of cancer. Instead, he believed it was the metal picks that he held in his mouth while playing music for hours at a time, day after day, in EMF saturated recording studios.

Van Halen thought that these metal picks served to concentrate the EMF-heavy environment in which he worked to the exact spot on his tongue where the cancer started. I used metal picks — they’re brass and copper — which I always held in my mouth, in the exact place where I got the tongue cancer. Plus, I basically live in a recording studio that’s filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I was smoking and doing a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are totally clear. This is just my own theory, but the doctors say it’s possible. While shocking, Van Halen’s theory is not so far fetched. Even his doctors admitted that it was plausible.

With most urban areas awash in electromagnetic radiation 24/7, a growing number of functional physicians are expressing concern that metal in a person’s mouth can attract and concentrate this energy in very vulnerable areas of the body, effectively causing a person’s head to attract radiation like a cell phone antenna.

This was first published on the Healthy Home Economist website, written by Sarah Pope. To read the full article click here.

 Latest News

Pesticide-Free Cambridge is a great initiative launched by one of our members. They are working with Pesticide Action Network (PAN UK), On The Verge Cambridge, and their campaign is part of PAN-UK's Pesticide-Free Towns. Find out more at: www.pesticidefreecambridge.org

 It's environmenstrual week, a week of action hosted by Wen from 19-25th October – with more than 60 organisations uniting to spread the word about plastic-free, toxic-free period products for all. To get discounts off products and to learn more about the campaign,  click here.

Air pollution may be linked to a heightened dementia risk

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