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Convenient, "Safe" and Deadly
The True Costs of Our Chemical Lifestyle
Author: Flora Preston
With Foreword By Dr. Gunnar Heuser
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ISBN-10: 0-9781301-0-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9781301-0-7
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About the Author
Book Summary
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Since 1987, Flora Preston has been disabled with Chemical Injuries. Prior to becoming disabled, she worked as a Registered Practical Nurse. However, for over 25 years, she has walked a tight rope between life and death. In Chapters 4 and 5, the author briefly tells how she learned the hard way that this chemical lifestyle is not safe. In her fight for survival, she was forced to rise to the challenge of changing her lifestyle and reducing her daily chemical dose. In doing so, her faith in God was also challenged and strengthened.
Convenient, “Safe” and Deadly takes the basic principles of clinical toxicology and puts them in an easy to read and easy to understand format. Using the common Dose—Response relationship chart, the author demonstrates how the tiny doses of a wide range of thousands of chemicals we daily encounter accumulate into a very large chemical exposure dose. The cumulative effect over time frequently leads to ill health. We learn that our chemical lifestyle is not safe; and therefore, we must rise to the challenge of changing our lifestyle and of reducing our daily chemical exposure dose.
In a letter to Flora Preston, Dr. Roy Fox wrote:
…You have been able to combine your own story in a very clear and personal way
together with a great deal of information about low level contamination. … I
found your book inspiring to see how the help of your family and friends has
enabled you to survive and to experience times beyond survival. I feel
comfortable in being able to say that I will recommend this book to the patients
that I see. …
Roy A. Fox, BSc., M.D., M.E.S., FRCPC,
Medical Director, Nova Scotia Environmental Health Centre
Flora Preston puts the toxicological causes of Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) into down-to-earth terms and charts everyone can
understand. She inspires readers with her faith, courage, and perseverance
while sharing painful experiences caused by negative attitudes of those who
refuse to educate themselves.
Toni Temple,
President, Ohio Network for the Chemically
Injured
This book is both a clear and understandable primer on
chemical sensitivity and a compelling testimony of courage, perseverance, faith
and love. Flora is our canary in a toxic mineshaft – we should be thankful she
continues to speak and we should heed the warning her life embodies.
Bruce J. Clemenger, B.A., M. Phil,.F, PhD (cand),
President, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,
Former Neighbour
Convenient, “Safe” and
Deadly sounds the alarm for all who
live in these toxic times. Whether we are healthy or already suffering chemical
injury we must heed the warning. We must renounce our easy dependency on lethal
chemicals and embrace a less toxic lifestyle. None of us can escape the damage
forced upon us by the chemical industry. As Christians we must arouse ourselves
from passive acceptance of the chemical lifestyle. We must accept the challenge,
and lead the way to preserve our God given right to clean food, pure water and
fresh air. Read Flora Preston’s book and wake up to the frightening results of
what chemicals are doing to us and to all future generations. Help to spread the
alarm! Seek to find ways to reduce the chemical load for yourself and all those
who live in your community.
Chaplain Jim Forbes and
Janice Forbes, RN,
Hand of Hope Telephone Counseling Ministry
Autism is a complex
developmental disorder caused by an abnormality in the brain. Whether the cause
is genetic, biological or neurological or some combination of the three is
currently being researched. Many parents of autistic children, however,
recognize that their child’s behaviour is significantly influenced by
environmental and chemical sensitivities. Our son, Zachary, was diagnosed with
autism spectrum disorder at the age of three and for the last ten years we have
been working with medical professionals to decrease Zachary’s severe behavioural
responses to food, chemicals and the environment. I am thankful for Flora
Preston’s efforts to raise awareness through her book Convenient, “Safe” and
Deadly. Her life is a dramatic example of the impact of chemicals on
our lives.
Elisabeth Graham,
Executive Director, Precious Minds Resource and Learning Centre,
Uxbridge, Ontario
We are delivered over to
our chemical lifestyles in the worst possible way when we regard it as something
neutral or safe; for this conception of what we eat, drink, and breath, and to
which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the
essence of our chemical dependency. With the beautiful blend of fact and
personal testimony, Flora offers a compelling lens in which to see ourselves and
take on the challenge of the politics of our health.
Tracy Clark Clemenger, B.R.S.,
B.A., M.A.,
Former Legislative Assistant to the Opposition Critic on Health Care, Parliament
Hill,
Former Neighbour
Chapter 1
Chemical
Injury Illnesses
Chemically Dependent Society
In
this book, we will examine the association between our
chemical lifestyle and our health. I'm sure we all agree that we have become a chemically
dependent society. Many aspects of our lifestyle are completely dependent on
synthetic chemicals.
For example, computers and our technology age are very dependent on plastic. For each person, that dependency varies according to lifestyle choices. For example, some women love strong perfume, other women don’t wear any perfume; some homes have wall to wall carpeting, others have none; some people think pesticides are terrific and use them a lot, and others avoid pesticides at all costs.
We all make different lifestyle choices; therefore the combination of chemicals we are all exposed to will be different for each of us. Yet, it is impossible for any of us to go from birth to death, without experiencing a vast array of exposures to a wide variety of synthetic chemicals.
Some synthetic chemicals are chemically identical to
those which are produced naturally. Consequently, we are continuously bombarded
with chemical exposure, either natural or synthetic. Therefore, we need to look
closely at this chemical bombardment and seriously ask ourselves some questions:
1) Are
there any negative health affects from these lifestyle choices?
2) Is
there any possible way that my choices are making me ill, or any member of my
family ill, or anyone else ill?
Our Body: A Chemical Manufacturing Plant
We know that our body is basically a chemical
manufacturing plant. The ability of the systems of our body to function normally
relies on our body’s ability to manufacture and process a wide variety of
chemicals. Hormones, enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates,
sugars, proteins, fats, etc. are all chemicals. Even water is a chemical
compound (H2O—di-hydrogen oxide). The body has its own built-in
systems to keep all chemical interactions in perfect balance. The body’s ability
to maintain life and health is dependent on the body’s ability to manufacture
and process chemicals and to keep the different systems of the body working in
balance. When the balance is thrown off, health problems arise.
So, what kinds of health problems might arise? We need to remind ourselves that this chemically dependent lifestyle increased drastically after World War II. Some chemical compounds were initially developed as nerve agents to help in winning a war; then when the war was over, they began finding other uses for these chemicals.
The thinking was that if it took a large dose to kill, a very tiny dose should not cause any problem. This thinking was based on the principle that the dose makes the poison. A large dose is poisonous; but a small dose is harmless.
New Emerging Illnesses
Now several
generations have been raised on this hypothesis. What we find is a new group of
illnesses beginning to emerge that challenge that claim.