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While recent studies have documented the unique vulnerability of young children to chemical exposures, little is known about the extent to which environmental pollutants have contributed to disease in children in America. The most serious diseases confronting children in the United States are chronic, disabling illnesses that place an enormous burden on our health care resources. These include asthma, leukemia and other childhood cancers, and neurobehavioral disorders such as autism, mental retardation, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Recent studies on childhood illnesses suggest that many of these diseases are caused in part by exposure to environmental chemicals. Children are especially vulnerable to the thousands of high volume chemicals that contaminate our air, water, and food. Children receive proportionately larger doses of chemical toxicants than adults, and these exposures occur at a time when children’s organs and tissues are rapidly growing and developing.

NIEHS-supported researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine estimated the contribution of environmental pollutants to the incidence, mortality and costs of four kinds of childhood diseases: lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and neurobehavioral disorders. The researchers calculated the fraction of each disease that was attributable to environmental exposures, the prevalence of these diseases, and the size of the population at risk. Based on these factors, the researchers estimate the annual costs associated with environmentally related illness in American children to be approximately $54.9 billion. Of this amount, $43.4 billion is due to lead poisoning, $2.0 billion to asthma, $0.3 billion to childhood cancer, and $9.2 billion to neurobehavioral disorders. This figure amounts to nearly 3% of total U.S. health care costs.

These findings suggest that the costs of children’s environmental diseases are high in relation to the limited resources directed to research and prevention. This information will be useful in developing new strategies and guidelines for the detection and prevention of environmental illness in America’s children including more comprehensive testing of environmental chemicals, additional research on the causes of environmental illness, development of new methods for tracking pediatric diseases, and the allocation of resources needed to prevent pollution.

Rachael Levenson

Recycling gold allows you to live green in more than one way. Generate additional income this month while supporting a healthy environment at the same time.

By recycling old gold such as old jewelry and gold casting, you are limiting the demand for new production of gold. Although modern advances have lead to safer mining of gold, threats to the environment still exist.

For example, some miners use cyanide and mercury to divide gold from rock. These chemicals are usually inhaled by the miners themselves, posing risks to their health. Furthermore, these chemicals may spread into the surrounding ecosystem, polluting rivers and vegetation.

The reduction of gold mining lessens the use of these chemicals and the amount of explosives used to break new ground during the mining process. These explosives are also damaging to surrounding communities.

In 2007, the United States was responsible for producing an astounding 255 metric tones of gold. Second only to China who produced 276 metric tons of gold and South Africa who produced 272 metric tones.

The good news is that being environmentally conscious has its rewards. With the rising price of gold, the gold recycling industry has been booming with people trading in their dusty gold for profit.

You may be surprised to find the numerous places where you may find gold. Remember that ugly piece of jewelry from a past boyfriend? Or the old broach you received from your dear Aunt many years ago? By just looking in a jewelry box, many women may find dusty jewelry that they haven’t worn in ages. Jewelry is the most obvious source of gold but many would be surprised to know that gold may be found in old computer parts, old castings and in some foreign coins.

Before you sell gold to a gold buyer, be sure to do your research well. For example, find out if the company is a member of the Better Business Bureau and how long they have been in good standing. Also, ask your gold buyer of their experience in the industry. You want to be sure that your transaction is safe, easy and profitable.

When more of us recycle gold, we are preserving our gold resources for future generations and helping to promote a healthier environment.

What’s in Deer Antler Velvet?

Deer antler velvet is named after the soft, velvet-like covering that deer antlers have before they turn bony. Antlers are organs of bone which regenerate each year from the heads of male deer. In addition to bone, support tissues such as nerves also regenerate. Nerves grow up to 1 cm each day, the fastest growing biologically active tissue known to science. Deer antler velvet contains many substances including amino acids, minerals, proteins, anti-inflammatory peptides, hormones, gangliosides and glycosaminoglycans, and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (which is known to be the master regulator responsible for body size – NHGRI.) It represents the only renewable form of cartilage, accounting for its signficant effects on bone and cartilage health and renewal. It is loaded with beneficial collagen, prostoglandin, phospholipids, proteoglycans, minerals, fatty acids and steroids. It is also rich with both chondroitin sulphate and glucosamine sulphate.

The Chinese have long believed that Antler Velvet is a “wonder drug.” A 2,000-year-old scroll discovered in a tomb in Hunan Province, China, listed dozens of different diseases that could be treated with deer velvet. The 16th century “Materia Medica,” a standard text of Chinese herbalists, lists deer velvet as one of the most highly prized natural medicinal substances.

Furthermore, research by Dr Andrezj Bartke and the BioMarker Foundation into life-span factors, while studying long-lived Ames dwarf mice, found that the Insulin Growth Factor genetic pathways are directly involved in confering longevity by increasing resistance to stress, enhancing immune function, and altering programmed aging. Nathan Sutter of the National Human Genome Research Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health, states, “IGF1 is amazing. It pops up all over the place… for example, it can account for different risks in a person getting prostate cancer.”

Evidence is proving the Chinese were right about Antler Velvet, and is a powerful modern synthesis of this ancient and life-giving formulation.

What is meant by “growth”?

Growth requires many, many co-ordinated processes in the body, and that in turn means a complex dance of lots of different hormones, which typically are the messengers that tell different parts of the body what to do and when. Growth hormones are the power behind muscle growth. They stimulate both the differentiation and proliferation of muscle cells, amino acid uptake and the synthesis of protein in muscle and other tissues. This is where IGF-Plus’ profound ability to influence overall muscle growth comes from.

Growth but so much more! You have to try it to experience the amazing effects. In so many areas.

• Enhances strength, endurance and athletic performance
• Has a positive impact on diseases, like stomach and lung conditions or even high cholesterol and high blood sugar (thins the blood)
• Reinvigorates and supports female and male sexual organs to restore potency and pleasure
• Works to eliminate extra body fat, especially in the abdomen and legs
• Improves skin texture and elasticity
• Help you sleep better
• Improve immune and heart function, and healing time
• Improve brain function, memory and mental focus
• Profound anti-aging qualities
• Arthritis and joint relief and repair
• Protects against future injury and deterioration

These are all a lot of claims, we admit. But clinical tests (and we have hundreds of researched studies) have shown these very effects in adults ranging in age from 20 to 90. Not just a superior muscle growth and performance enhancer, This is remarkably helpful for a whole category of health benefits and assists with many and varied complaints.

Our formula uses New Zealand pure deer antler velvet, which is the highest purity and quality available on the market, and is consequently subject to quota restrictions (which also makes it hard to keep in stock, especially given its remarkable success.) The amazing re-order rate of this product is further proof of its efficacy. Try it for a minimum of 2-3 weeks to see its full effects.

In general, it is used to restore, balance and strengthen the body, support joint function, increase muscle growth and testosterone levels, facilitate athletic performance, sexual performance, and cultivate an overall feeling of well-being. It has amazing beneficial effects for both men and women. And our new extraction process has increased the growth factor percentage by 300% for an even more effective formula.