Our toxic environment

Some of the facts that I uncovered in my research made me even more determined to help prevent cancer.  If even one person could avoid going through this hell then I wanted to help them do that. 

Did you know that the Great Lake Regions is one of the most toxic areas in North America!  When I read the Little Green Handbook the Great Lake Regions was actually the first one on the list for the world!  There are over 100,000 synthetic chemicals in use and between 200 and 1000 new chemicals added each year.  It takes about 3 weeks to get a new chemical on the market – it takes about 3 years to approve a new cancer drug!
Less then 20% of these chemicals are ever tested for chronic impacts to our health.  To get one of these chemicals removed from production it can take up to 30 years!  According to the National Research Council there is no information available for more then 80% of the chemicals we use in our everyday products.

Every eight minutes two Canadians are diagnosed with cancer and one Canadian dies from cancer.  According to the Canadian Cancer Society cancer is still the leading cause of premature death.  In 1970 your odds of getting cancer were 1 in 10: today your odds are 1 in 3 and in the world every three seconds someone is diagnosed with cancer. 

However, there is hope and it is within each of us.  As consumers we have the power to make better-informed choices and we can drive change.  Once we start to make better choices then manufactures and the government will take notice.