An ad for a new product caught my eye recently. It was for multi-grain Pringles. Now, I've got no "chip" on my shoulder about junk food when eaten in prudent moderation (meaning very little), but making the case for justifying junk food by making it "multi-grain" illustrates the problem in the American diet. Magazine and television advertisements would lead you to believe the children's cereal Froot Loops is a health food, if you want to believe that!

Alarmingly, we live in an increasingly toxic world. If you breathe air, eat food, or drink water, toxins are entering your body. These stealth killers go into our bodies, but many of them do not come back out! They literally get stuck in the deep tissues of our bodies in the liver, heart, brain, kidneys, and bones causing diseases of all sorts such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's.

Discouragingly, we are developing newer man-made chemicals by the thousands. These man-made chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides and industrial chemicals are listed by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) as poisons. If you've ever read the dire warning labels on insecticides, weed killers and the like, you'll see how harmful they can be when exposed to humans.

Not being a coincidence, many of these chemicals are carcinogenic. OSHA just last month added numerous new chemicals to their list of carcinogens including toxins we're exposed to daily such as formaldehyde and styrene. (Formaldehyde may be found in household products, disinfectants, glues, adhesion, and building materials including hard-pressed woods such as particle board and plywood. Styrene may be found in boats, tubs, shower, and Styrofoam.) Concomitantly, just as we are seeing an increase in chemical toxins in our environment, we are also seeing a rise in cancer rates.