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(NaturalNews) Columbia researchers just found that people exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke early in life showed emphysema-like changes in their lungs in adulthood and had a higher risk of having emphysema. This isn’t surprising because the effects of toxic substances inside the body will undoubtedly affect you even years after exposure - largely because the body isn’t fully capable of removing all of the toxic chemicals we’re regularly exposed to. This includes, but certainly isn’t limited to, cigarette smoke.
Doctors regularly maintain that the body is fully capable of removing all of the toxins that people regularly take in. However, if this was the case these people likely wouldn’t have had problems from early cigarette exposure years later in life - as the body is constantly regenerating itself. It’s estimated that the lungs are completely rebuilt each and every year, and without the cause still in place the lungs most likely would have repaired themselves by adulthood.
The participants were 45 - 84 years old and weren’t smokers. Using a CT scan, researchers looked into the lungs of those who lived with a habitually smoking parent and compared them to the lungs of other non-smokers who weren’t exposed to cigarette smoke from parents.
If you’ve already been exposed to secondhand smoke, or are or have been a smoker, some of the most obvious things you can do are quit (if you smoke) and begin detoxifying your body to remove the contamination. If you’ve been a heavy smoker, it can take a bit of work and the reason why is apparent when you understand that each year of smoking over a pack a day leaves 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds of tar inside your body. Plus, you’ll have been exposed to hundreds of chemical poisons including ammonia, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, and the heavy metal cadmium.
Most people don’t know it, but the easiest way to quit smoking is to use detoxification methods. This is because it’s the cigarette’s chemicals inside your body that are causing your cravings - and your dependency - so by removing those chemicals, you can free yourself from the addictive trap. You’ll likely also free yourself from quite a bit of chronic disease too. For an easy detoxification program to quit smoking, see here<.
If you’re wondering why you should bother, know that fifty percent of regular smokers die from smoking and that 400,000 Americans die each year from tobacco use. On top of that, millions more suffer chronic diseases from current or past smoking. If you thought smoking was expensive, be sure and add in the cost of treatments and remember to include the high cost of your pain and suffering too.
So, have a look at a small number of the diseases caused by smoking: emphysema, bronchitis, heart disease, artery problems, many different cancers, respiratory problems, erectile dysfunction, vision problems, infertility, fetal growth retardation and wrinkles. Pick any two and imagine yourself with them. Then decide if that’s what you want for yourself or your children, if you have them.
More:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/c…<
http://www.healthnews.com/medical-u…<
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a…<
http://oralcancerfoundation.org/tob…<
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/ne…<
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_a…<
Kim Evans is a natural health writer and author of Cleaning Up! The Ultimate Body Cleanse. Deep cleansing has helped her, personally, eliminate over a dozen problems in her own body - including several that medical professionals had said there were no solutions for, except long-term drugs.
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