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Work at Home

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:06:28 +0100

Don't forget to click on the work at home tab for some great work at home opportunities! And remember to stop by from time to time because I will be adding more!

Your Store Receipt Could Be Harmful to Your Health!!!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:20:23 +0100

I saw this news article and I had to post it...I thought about all the people out there including myself who have handled many many receipts. Not to mention all of us who have children!

Study: Receipts Could Be Harmful to Your Health

By Comcast News
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:23:47 GMT

Editor's Note: This post contributed by Andrew Schneider originally appeared on July 27 on AOLNews.com.

Cash-register receipts from many fast-food outlets, groceries, pharmacies, big-box stores and U.S. post offices contain high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A.

A study released late today by the Environmental Working Group reported that a laboratory analysis it commissioned found the plastic component BPA on 40 percent of receipts from McDonald's, CVS, KFC, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, Safeway and other businesses.

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BPA is used to coat thermal paper, which reacts with dye to form black print on receipts handled by millions of Americans every day. In laboratory tests, the chemical has been linked to a long list of serious health problems in animals. Several environmental activists, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also have called for removing BPA from canned goods. Laurie Palmer, of Portland, Ore., checks her sales receipt after checking out at a Wal-Mart in Vancouver, Wash. "Consumers are being exposed to BPA at the point of sale once they're handed a receipt," senior scientist Dr. Anila Jacob told AOL News.

These receipts pile up in purses, wallets and shopping bags, coming into contact with food and other items. When handled, the slips of thermal paper can easily contaminate fingers, which then can result in oral or dermal exposure, the physician explained.

Wipe tests conducted by EWG's researchers easily removed BPA from the sample receipts, indicating that the chemical could rub off on the hands of a person handling the paper. The heat-activated paper that was tested contained as much as 3 percent pure BPA by weight, EWG reported.

But is this harmful to humans?

The EWG, a national nonprofit organization, is undertaking additional studies to determine whether and to what degree BPA enters the body. However, earlier this month Swiss scientist Sandra Biedermann and her colleagues from the Zurich Official Food Control Authority reported that BPA from register receipts can "enter the skin to such a depth that it can no longer be washed off."

That finding raises the possibility that the chemical infiltrates the skin's lower layers to enter the bloodstream directly, the EWG says.

The Fix May Be Easy

However, the scientists did not detect any BPA or only trace amounts in receipts from Target, Starbucks, some bank ATMs and other enterprises.

Also See: Avoiding Contact with BPA Receipts

"Since 60 percent of the receipts EWG tested did not contain BPA, we know there is an easy fix for retailers who still use paper containing the chemical," Jacob added.

For almost two years now, public health and environmental experts have been pushing to reduce BPA exposure, especially in cans for processed food, baby bottles and infant formula.

In animal tests, scientists have produced evidence that BPA can induce abnormal reproductive system development, diminished intellectual capacity and behavioral abnormalities and can set the stage for other serious conditions, such as reproductive system cancer, obesity, diabetes, early puberty, resistance to chemotherapy, asthma and cardiovascular system disorders.

The EWG added that exposure can also cause epigenetic changes, meaning alterations in the way genes switch off and on and genetic changes that can be passed on to the next generation.

Scientists at the University of Missouri's Division of Biological Sciences laboratory examined receipts collected from big-name and mom-and-pop stores, ATMs, gas stations and other commercial operations in seven states and the District of Columbia, according to the EWG.

The amount of BPA the analysis found on the feather-weight scraps of paper were 250 to 1,000 times greater than other, more widely criticized sources carrying the toxin.

Risk to Workers

The BPA coating on receipt paper is an obvious concern for shoppers, but even more so for the millions of people who staff cash registers and bag groceries at tens of thousands of retailers across the country

The Swiss researchers reported that a person repeatedly touching thermal printer paper for 10 hours a day could be exposed to 42 times the present tolerable daily exposure.

The risk from handling BPA-laden receipts can be significant, Jacob said, and added that eliminating exposure to this ubiquitous yet toxic substance should remain the first priority of U.S. lawmakers.

The EWG study says statistics from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that retail workers carry an average of 30 percent more BPA in their bodies than other adults.

AOL News asked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration if it had plans to control this occupational exposure but received no reply.

Jealousy

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:54:22 +0100

Count your blessings and be happy for what God gave you because it all works for His greater good!!

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
-James 3:16

Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, but who can stand before jealousy?
-Proverbs 27:4

When Your Patience Is Being Tested

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:52:03 +0100

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Romans 5:3-5

Earthquake in Haiti

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:16:19 +0100

I was watching some footage on the earth quake in Haiti. I was left speechless...the rubble, fires, so many, many people injured and left homeless. What struck me the most were the children. Hurt, wondering where their families are, wandering, and defenseless...Please, please after you read this say a prayer for the people of Haiti and all the people who are also their from various places trying to help. Thank you Lord for the people that are there helping amongst the ruin and rubble and for the many more that are on their way to help, volunteer, and risk their own lives!!!

Happy New Year!

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:47:47 +0100

Happy New Year and may God bless you and keep you!!!

We'll See Each Other Again...

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:48:31 +0100

I can't beleive it's been a year already! We miss you so much, dad. I don't understand why, but I know that it is in God's will and that I have to accept that...not as easy as it sounds though. I know we'll see each other again and for now I just pray that he gives us strength, and eases this awful ache that has been left in our hearts! I love you and miss you dearly...

F M

7/71950 - 11/24/2008

Favorite Psalm

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:13:27 +0100

Thank you so much for stopping by today! May the Lord bless you and keep you! I wanted to take a minute and just share with everyone my favorite Psalm. Oh Lord our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Psalm 8

1    O Lord our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth.
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

2    Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

3    When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

4    What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

5    For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

6    You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

7    All sheep and oxen- Even the beasts of the field,

8    The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.

9    O Lord, our Lord How excellent is Your name in all the earth!