How Did This Toxic Poison End Up In Our Wine?
How Did This Toxic Poison End Up In Our Wine?
How did all that arsenic get into our glass of wine? Simple…
Environmental levels of arsenic have increased, thanks to heavy use of pesticides and poultry fertilizers that contain arsenic. In fact, the U.S. is the world’s leading user of arsenic, accumulating a whopping 1.5 million tons of the poison according to Consumer Reports. All that stuff just goes right into the soil.
Unfortunately, grapes soak up arsenic like a sponge. Then when the grape skins are crushed to make red wine, the arsenic leaches out. And that’s just the beginning…
Wine makers also use large amounts of water, which often contains arsenic, to process the wine. And all that arsenic ends up in your glass!
But even if you don’t drink much wine, you could still be at risk. That’s because red wine is just one way that arsenic gets into our bodies. Dozens of popular foods are likely loaded with high levels of arsenic too!
Take so called “healthy” rice for example. Consumer Reports tested 223 samples of rice products and found significant levels of arsenic in almost all of them. White, brown, parboiled, jasmine, basmati, it didn’t matter — all of them were contaminated.
The sad fact is that drinking wine and eating rice can create a slow buildup of arsenic in your body. According to new research from Dartmouth, eating as little as half a cup of rice a day can increase your levels of arsenic by 53% compared to those who don’t eat rice. And drinking five to six glasses of red wine per week can increase your arsenic levels by 20% compared to those who don’t drink.
Repeated exposure to even very low doses of arsenic in your food and water can cause breathing problems, increase your risk for heart and blood sugar problems, and interfere with the function of your immune cells. It also damages lung cells and causes inflammation in heart cells.
And at high levels it can be deadly.
So what are you supposed to do? Become a teetotaler? Stop eating rice? That’s difficult since rice is virtually in everything.
The good news is there's a simple solution that can safely and gently remove arsenic from your body. Not only that, but this same solution enables you to flush out additional heavy metals and dangerous toxins that new studies show are contaminating your body. I'll tell you all about this simple solution in just a moment.
But first, let me show you why arsenic isn't the only dangerous toxin that's ending up in your food. Additional studies have found DDT, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury, and dioxins in many popular foods. And every day more and more of these chemicals slowly seep into our bodies.
Now, you may already know about the dangers of toxins. And you may already do everything you can to avoid them — like eating organic food, drinking filtered water, or using natural products in your home. But, your body may still be contaminated even if you take all these precautions.
In another recent study, scientists tested a group of families for 107 different man-made toxins. They tested blood and urine samples from each family member. Every family member was tested including grandparents, parents and children.
Here's what they found… Every single person from the youngest to the oldest was contaminated with toxins. And the family members with the most toxins in their bodies were between the ages of 58 and 92.
In fact, scientists discovered over 63 different chemicals in the bodies of the oldest generation! They found PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated chemicals, and more.
