Food is our most intimate environmental exposure.]

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NUTRITION

" Food is our most intimate environmental exposure. "

Theron G. Randolph, M.D.

In 1951 Food Allergy was coauthored by Dr. Randolph, in which the authors point

out many deleterious

effects from monotonous diets. A small pamphlet, Enjoy Nutritious Variety:

Rotation Diet, explains

how to avoid many of these problems. It can be purchased for $3.00 from NOHA,

P.O. Box 380, Winnetka,

Illinois 60093. The Nutrition for Optimal Health Association (NOHA) is an

excellent source of

nutrition information. Founded in 1972, NOHA is independent of any commercial or

political influence.

This independence reinforces NOHA's outstanding reputation for objectivity in

the field of nutrition.

Dr. Randolph explained food sensitivities plus problems with other environmental

exposures in great

detail in An Alternative Approach to Allergies: The New Field of Clinical

Ecology Unravels the

Environmental Causes of Mental and Physical Ills, which he coauthoried with

Ralph Moss, Ph.D.

Many human health problems are caused by eating pesticided and processed foods.

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Traditionally, agricultural societies used composted human waste as good

fertilizer. With the

industrial revolution people moved to congested cities, far from farmland. Then,

untreated sewage

and all sorts of toxic by-products from the new industries were mixed and piped

together into rivers

and oceans-it was the cheapest thing to do. However, the resulting mixtures are

truly toxic and not

usable: Biological wastes should have been recycled through a system that

returned their nutrients

to the soil, and businesses should have been required to separately treat their

chemical wastes

on-site so that they could be contained and reused within the industries from

which they came.

At present, sewage treatment plants produce concentrated sludge, which contains

organic nutrients

plus the heavy metals and other toxic substances from industry. Sludge typically

contains:

a.. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs);

b.. Chlorinated pesticides-DDT, dieldrin, 2,4,5-T, 2,4,D;

c.. Chlorinated compounds such as dioxins; polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons;

d.. Heavy metals-arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury;

e.. Miscellaneous-asbestos, petroleum products, industrial solvents.

The sludge from the Milwaukee sewage treatment plant has been sold for seventy

years as

" Milorganite " with a warning not to use it when growing food. Unforturnately,

now about

twenty-eight million pounds of sludge is produced every year and we are being

told by the

United States Environmental Protection Agency and the public relations industry

that this

sludge is excellent fertilizer for farmers to use when growing our food.

Stauber, , and Sheldon Rampton, the authors of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!

Lies, Damn Lies

and the Public Relations Industry, did not realize how appropriate their

tentative title was

until they were contacted by a public relations executive who tried to get them

to change the

title because her company was trying to persuade the public that toxic sludge is

excellent

fertilizer.

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