{"id":5610,"date":"2010-05-06T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2010-05-05T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T04:01:31","slug":"fewer-chemicals-less-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/fewer-chemicals-less-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer chemicals = less cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crespoluigi\/4533494170\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_1355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2731\/4533494170_dac9eb2c63.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1355\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House dinner | Photo by crespoluigi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A White House panel is set to release a report today stating something organic fans have been preaching for years &#8212; chemicals threaten our bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/06\/opinion\/06kristof.html\">Nicholas D. Kristof has a preview<\/a> of the report in the New York Times and shares these main points of the 200-page report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Particularly when pregnant and when children are small, choose foods, toys and garden products with fewer endocrine disruptors or other toxins. (Information about products is at www.cosmeticsdatabase.com  or www.healthystuff.org.)\n<\/li>\n<li>For those whose jobs may expose them to chemicals, remove shoes when entering the house and wash work clothes separately from the rest of the laundry.\n<\/li>\n<li>Filter drinking water.\n<\/li>\n<li>Store water in glass or stainless steel containers, or in plastics that don\u2019t contain BPA or phthalates (chemicals used to soften plastics). Microwave food in ceramic or glass containers.\n<\/li>\n<li>Give preference to food grown without pesticides, chemical fertilizers and growth hormones. Avoid meats that are cooked well-done.<\/li>\n<li>\nCheck radon levels in your home. Radon is a natural source of radiation linked to cancer. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Have you adjusted your eating to eat more organic, chemical free foods? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to know what you&#8217;re doing.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A White House panel is set to release a report today stating something organic fans have been preaching for years &#8212; chemicals threaten our bodies. Nicholas D. Kristof has a preview of the report in the New York Times and shares these main points of the 200-page report: Particularly when pregnant and when children are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/fewer-chemicals-less-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fewer chemicals = less cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2414,24],"tags":[381,3532,4661,1322,3533],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eats","category-treehugging","tag-cancer","tag-filtered-water","tag-food","tag-organic","tag-toxins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1su","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}