China Adopt Talk

Avoiding Toxins – Bisphenol-A (BPA) in canned goods and other products

RumorQueen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:12:46 +0000

Bisphenol-A is much harder to avoid than one would think. It’s getting easier, and in a few years hopefully it will be mostly history, but for now you’ve got to stay on your toes to avoid it. First, what’s wrong with it. Before BPA was used in plastic, it was synthesized as a man-made estrogen [...]

Avoiding Toxins – Sunscreen

RumorQueen — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:01:34 +0000

There are lots of bad things that go in sunscreen, but I want to talk about three of them in a bit of detail. First, let’s talk about retinyl palmitate. Studies have found that tumors developed 21 percent faster in lab animals coated in retinyl palmitate cream than in animals coated in an identical cream [...]

Avoiding Toxins – Fingernail Polish

RumorQueen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:15:17 +0000

The worst nail polish ingredients are generally agreed to be: Toluene Xylene Formaldehyde (formalin) Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) There are a fairly decent number of nail polish manufacturers who have gotten rid of these ingredients. However, they’ve still got some harsh things in them. Both butyl acetate and ethyl acetate are organic solvents, so it’s possible [...]

Allergies

RumorQueen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:42 +0000

I ran short on time last night and didn’t get the next Avoiding Toxins post written. That’s okay though, because I wanted to take some time for us to talk about and compare the things our kids are allergic to. GlitterGirl doesn’t do well on sugar. At all. It’s like she loses her ability to [...]

Avoiding Toxins – Flame Resistant Pajamas

RumorQueen — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:32:55 +0000

Somewhere along the line, our government decided that our kids should be sleeping in flame resistant self extinguishing pajamas at night. Sounds good at first, but twice (back in the 70′s) it was discovered that the chemicals being used to make this happen were toxic and were pulled from the market. The chemicals being used [...]

Avoiding Toxins – Petroleum Products in lotions and make-up

RumorQueen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:01:33 +0000

Much like sodas seem to quench your thirst but in reality just make you thirstier (because of the salt), petroleum products do not moisturize, but dry your skin out, making you use even more of it. Petroleum products create a barrier that the lotion companies tell you will lock whatever moisture is already there into [...]

Avoiding Toxins – Non Stick Pans

RumorQueen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:09:08 +0000

I posted a complicated post yesterday, so I’ll try to post a simpler one today. Tomorrow I’ll be back to complicated again, as I plan to tackle petroleum products in lotions and make-up, and that may take more than one blog post. But today — cookware. There have been tons of studies done over the [...]

High Fructose Corn Syrup – why it is bad

RumorQueen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:07:38 +0000

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is produced by milling corn to produce corn starch, then processing the starch into corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose (which isn’t so bad). They then add enzymes that change some of the glucose into fructose (which is very bad). Regular cane sugar is made of two sugar molecules bound [...]

One for the Money — the movie

RumorQueen — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:59:45 +0000

We don’t go to the movie theater often, but I loved the first ten(ish) books of this series and wanted to see the characters brought to life on the big screen. I’ll list the bad first — Ranger was miscast, big time. Ranger is bigger than life, and he wasn’t all that special in the [...]

Pollution in China

RumorQueen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:36:09 +0000

Here is yet another story about pollution in China. One of the many reasons our factories moved overseas is because it is so expensive for companies to be responsible from a pollution standpoint, and that’s pretty much a requirement in the US, while not so much in countries like China, India, Mexico, and Pakistan. I’m [...]