Twenty five years ago I was raising my family in Love Canal near Niagara Falls when I discovered that my home was sitting next to 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals. That shocking discovery spurred me and my neighbors to lead a three-year struggle to protect our families from the hazardous waste buried in our backyards. Our fight at Love Canal led to President Jimmy Carter announcing an Emergency Declaration, which moved 900 families from this hazardous area and signified the victory of our efforts.
Today we have learned that we cannot escape poisonous chemicals in our communities. They are not only in factories and toxic dumps, but in everyday household goods like shower curtains and cosmetics. One of today's most dangerous toxic offenders is PVC, the poison plastic, also known as vinyl.
Products made with PVC include some children's toys, shampoo bottles, lunch boxes, and home building materials. Many of these seemingly innocent items may pose serious health and environmental threats in production, at home, and in the trash, releasing dangerous chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. When you smell that new plastic tablecloth, you are inhaling toxic fumes. When a baby chews on a new vinyl plastic toy, they could be ingesting harmful chemicals. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put vinyl shower curtains to the test and found some alarming results: one new shower curtain can lead to elevated levels of indoor air toxics for over one month. Why is it that the problematic additives in PVC toys have been banned in Europe, but they're still sold in our country?
While the health and environmental dangers of PVC plastic have been well documented for decades, in recent years some fortune 500 companies have been waking up and starting to replace PVC with safer, healthier products. Almost one year ago, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott announced the company was committed to, "replacing PVC packaging for our private brands with alternatives that are more sustainable and recyclable within the next two years." Other retailers and companies such as Microsoft, Nike, Ikea, H&M, and Johnson & Johnson have also committed to phasing out PVC in products and/or packaging. The economy is beginning to move toward safer, sustainable materials and indicates a trend that US businesses should pay attention to.
In the meantime we can all use our consumer power to help shift the market away from PVC products by avoiding anything labeled "vinyl" or with the number "3" or the letter "V" in or under the classic recycling symbol.
Years from now I hope we can look back not only on our victory at Love Canal, but also at the elimination of PVC from common household products and packaging. Then we can all feel proud to know that we have left a safer and healthier world for our children. --Lois Gibbs is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ). >>>> MORE >>>>

The thymus gland is a small gland in the upper chest. It weighs one third to one half ounce at birth, and reaches its peak weight of about 17 ounces at puberty. Thereafter, under the influence of many factors, including adrenal and sex hormones, the active thymus gland cells begin to die off, with much of the thymus gland tissue being gradually replaced by fat and connective tissue.
In the 1960's research showed that immature white blood cells would "incubate" for a period inside the thymus gland, and exit transformed into one of the specific types T cells. By the 1970's, the thymus gland began to be viewed as an endocrine gland, similar to other endocrine glands, such as the pituitary or thyroid, secreting thymosin, and perhaps other hormones, which can act at sites distant from the thymus to influence cell immunity.
By the 1990's, at least 4 different peptide hormones naturally secreted by the thymus gland had been discovered and clinically tested. Collectively, these thymus gland hormones have been shown, in human, animal and in vitro studies, to have a broad range of action, well beyond merely maturing and differentiating T cells.
Thymus gland hormones can increase key immune signals, called "lymphokines", causing greater numbers of T cells to develop more quickly, which is important to rapidly fight invading germs. Thymus gland hormones reduce autoimmune reactions, such as occur in rheumatoid arthritis. Thymus gland hormones can increase disease-fighting antibodies when they're needed, yet reduce the levels of the "allergic antibody" in those suffering allergic rhinitis, asthma, and atopic dermatitis.
Thymus gland hormones increase the number, activity, and healthy structure of T cells, and T cells secrete Human Growth Hormone. Furthermore, they can stimulate the pituitary to release GH. Another important effect of thymus gland hormones is their immune normalizing action.
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