Friends of Truth

Friends of Truth are all those people and organizations that have remained committed by their actions and their voices for the past 100 years to uncovering the truth about the Synthetics Belief System.

Today, Friends of Truth pays special tribute to the cooperative efforts of some particularly effective voices and their courage to act for the sake of all living beings.

Below you'll find some great tools and education provided by their honest efforts to get you going while you wait for The Hundred-Year Lie to hit the bookstands June 22nd.

The Environmental Working Group
Environmental investigations have been the Environmental Working Group's speciality since 1993. Its team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and its own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Their research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know. It shames and shakes up polluters and their lobbyists. It rattles politicians and shapes policy. It persuades bureaucracies to rethink science and strengthen regulation. It provides practical information you can use to protect your family and community. EWG is a tremendous Friend of Truth. Check out these helpful tools that will help you make the choices you need to combat the Synthetics Belief System

Food News: A Handy Wallet Guide To Pesticides In Produce

Skin Deep: News About The Safety of Popular Health & Beauty Brands
Did you know: the government cannot mandate safety studies of cosmetics, and only 11 percent of the 10,500 ingredients FDA has documented in products have been assessed for safety by the cosmetic industry's review panel. Explore your products with Skin Deep's in-depth rating guides, and find safer choices for you and your family. Skin Deep is a personal care product safety guide with in-depth information on 14,408 products - 1,005 brands of lotion, lip balm, deodorant, sunscreen and other popular products - and the 6,967 ingredients that form them. With its core of 37 toxicity and regulatory databases, Skin Deep provides safety ratings and brand-by-brand comparisons that can help consumers choose safer products.

Fish List: What Women Should Know About Mercury In Fish
Internal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveal that the agency is failing in its public health obligation to protect pregnant women and the developing fetus from the toxic effects of mercury. The FDA cites focus group research as a justification for its severely limited consumer advisory on fish that should be avoided by pregnant women. However, transcripts of the focus groups reveal that the agency knows its standards don't protect the fetus, knows that adequate protection would mean adding tuna to the list of restricted fish, and knows that women want as much information as possible, preferably from their doctors.

National Tap Water Quality Database: What's In Your Water?
In an analysis of more than 22 million tap water quality tests, most of which were required under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, EWG found that water suppliers across the U.S. detected 260 contaminants in water served to the public. One hundred forty-one (141) of these detected chemicals - more than half - are unregulated; public health officials have not set safety standards for these chemicals, even though millions drink them every day.

Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns
A benchmark investigation of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides in umbilical cord blood. In a study spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in collaboration with Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. Tests revealed a total of 287 chemicals in the group. The umbilical cord blood of these 10 children, collected by Red Cross after the cord was cut, harbored pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage.

Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. They are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers.

Got Mercury?
Eating seafood high in mercury is hazardous to your health, especially for women and children. This "Got Mercury?" calculator will help you make healthier seafood choices. Just enter your weight, the seafood type, the amount of seafood you will eat during a week, and click the calculator button. These calculations are based on EPA and FDA data (updated January 2006).

Environmental Health News
EHN aggregates links to articles in the world press about environmental health, with daily updates. Topics carried include a broad array of issues in environmental health, including: chemical contamination, water quantity and quality, air pollution, sewage, Mad Cow disease, and genetic engineering, etc. as well as climate change and biodiversity stories with a health dimension. We make a special effort to find media coverage of new scientific findings related to these issues. We do not cover pure energy, 'critter stories,' or animal rights. Anything covered should have, at least implicitly, a link to human or ecosystem health.

Protecting Our Health
Here you will find an essay titled "Chemical Contaminants and Human Disease: A Summary of Evidence" which introduces a spreadsheet compiled scientists that summarizes representative knowledge about links between environmental exposures and human diseases. While extensive, it is not an exhaustive list. Of special value is the perspective it provides on the strength of the scientific evidence linking a given health condition with a particular chemical exposure. The accmpanying database is of particular value as it summarizes many links between chemical contaminants and about 200 human diseases, disorders, or conditions.

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