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Chemicals and toxins accumulate over time within the body. These chemicals and toxins are kept in control for the most part by the natural production of fat and water. The quotes below will help people understand the effect chemicals and toxins are having on humans. Many health professionals might find it interesting to see that, although Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton’s theory has a solid scientific foundation in that various effects of chemicals on humans have been documented since Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” back in 1962.
“Apart from any directly toxic effects, indirect consequences follow the use of certain herbicide chemicals. It is a fact that animals, both wild and as well as domestic livestock, are for some reason attracted to plants and botanicals that have been sprayed, even though it is not one of their naturally occurring foods. . . Wild cherry, the leaves of which are highly poisonous, has exerted a fatal attraction for cattle once its foliage has been sprayed with 2,4 D the livestock eagerly feed on it after its foliage has been sprayed. Why?
The explanation of this unnatural behavior sometimes appears to lie in the molecular changes, which the chemical brings about in the plants themselves. Alien chemicals cause the plants to produce excess sugars, making the plant more attractive to many animals” (Carson 76, 77). Rachel Carson then went on to discuss the METABOLIC changes in other plants when they are sprayed with pesticides.
The METABOLISM of sugar beets, alfalfa, barley grass, corn, sorghum, sunflower, spiderwort, pigweed, and smartweed dramatically changed and this results in an increase in nitrate content of these plants as well as increased sugar content. The complicated digestive tracts of cows, for example, have a four-chamber stomach that converts the nitrates into nitrites (2). High levels of nitrates or nitrites result in a phenomenon called methemoglobinemia, a condition in which the iron in the hemoglobin molecule combines irreversibly with oxygen and is unable to release the oxygen to the tissues.
In the 1960’s environmentalist/conservationist Rachel Carson documented that the structure metabolism of plants is changed by exposure to chemicals. Then it should not come as a big surprise that these same chemicals are altering human metabolism since we eat the plants. In plants, the consequence is an increased production of sugar and/or nitrates whereas in humans, the side effect appears to be a definite increase in fat.
Rachel Carson also wrote, “We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can precipitate acute poisoning. But that is not the major problem . . . . For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly contaminate our world” (Carson 188).
The toxic materials become lodged in all the fatty tissues of the body that are naturally manufactured quickly to enrobe and absorb these chemicals. As the fat tissue absorbs these chemicals, hopefully the body is protected from them. Without this absorption by fat tissue these chemicals would intoxicate the body.
A New Zealand medical journal recently provided some interesting information. A man under specific treatment for obesity suddenly developed symptoms of chemical poisoning. Why? While health professionals were examining his fat tissue it was found to contain large amounts of stored dieldrin as well as many other chemicals, which had been metabolized as he lost the fat. The same thing could happen with loss of fat in illness.
Dieting to specifically lose fat alone without addressing toxin accumulation in the system can be very dangerous especially if a fat reducing diet is not attached to some kind of cleansing regime. It is important to address the removal or cleansing of chemicals and toxins while at the same time addressing the control or removal of fat.
Several years ago the Journal of the American Medical Association warned strongly of the hazards of insecticide and chemical storage in adipose tissue (fats), indicating that drugs and/or chemicals that are residually cumulative require greater caution.
The adipose tissue is not just a place for the deposition of fat, which makes up about 20 percent of the body’s weight, but has many important functions with which stored chemicals, toxins and poisons negatively interact. Fats are widely distributed in the organs and tissues of the whole body, even being found in cell membranes.
It is important to remember that the fat-soluble chemicals and toxins are stored in individual cells as well as fat cells, where they are in a position to react with the most vital and necessary functions of oxidation and energy production. (Carson 190, 191)
DDT, methoxychlor, malathion, phenothiazine, and various dinitro compounds are among the numerous pesticides found in the body that have been found to inhibit one or more of the enzyme systems concerned in the cycle of oxidation within the body. They aggressively appear as agents potentially capable of blocking the whole process of cellular energy production and depriving the cells of utilizable nascent oxygen.
This is indeed an injury with most disastrous health consequences. (Carson 204). Many health professionals due to the lack of knowledge in this area (chemical intoxication) have been unable to explain the concept of a food chemical interaction within the body to people.
Let’s look at Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton’s book . . .
“I had already come across a very large number of chemicals that produce fattening effects – but it was becoming clearer by the day that the ability to fatten varied greatly between these different chemicals. As there were so many different types of these substances, it became more and more evident that I had to find some way to rank them according to their ‘fattening’ ability.
This kind of ranking system would really enable people to tackle the problem head on, since by knowing which were the worst offenders, the foods or places in which they were found could be avoided” (Baillie-Hamilton 79, 80).
Dr. Baillie-Hamilton explains that a “chemical calorie” is a new unit of measurement: it is “a revolutionary way of measuring the fattening ability of the chemicals in virtually every conceivable type of food and household product” (Baillie-Hamilton 81).
“Effectively, then, the fattening ability of a chemical can be measured by the degree of damage caused to the Slimming System – and it is this damage which is measured in units of chemical calories” (Baillie-Hamilton 81).
References
Baillie-Hamilton, Dr. Paula, MD, PhD. “The Detox Diet:
Eliminate Chemical Calories & Restore Your Body’s Natural
Slimming System.” London: Penguin. 2002.
Carson, Rachel. “Silent Spring.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1962.
Torowa, Rudolf. “Chemicals Within” PR. 1007-13, pp. 107
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