Environmental toxins

Letter September 24, 2016
Health experts advise that people must alkalise their bodies

ISLAMABAD: Our environment is full of toxic materials which is why more or less, every second person in the society, especially in urban Pakistan, has environmental toxins in their system. The environmental toxins create acidity in the human body and our bodies become more susceptible to various deadly diseases.

What to speak of other environmental toxins? We, unfortunately, live in such a society where people don’t even have adequate safe drinking water to use in order to clear out excess toxins from the human body.

I see people from all age groups in the federal capital drinking water from plastic bottles, which wreak havoc on their hormones and reproductive systems. They either ignore the fact, much like our ruling class, or are simply unaware. Either way, spreading awareness is the job of the government. However, the overall health and fitness of the nation is not a priority of our ruling class because they need ailing and sickly minded people to rob and rule.

Health experts advise that people must alkalise their bodies and provide various tips to improve one’s immunity in order to cope with acidity in the diet created by environmental toxins. Where the government fails in this aspect, the media must come forward to educate people about environmental toxins and their bodily damage.

Hashim Abro

Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2016.

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