If you have access to the internet, you must get a lot of junk email. Some of these electronic letters grab our attention more than others. Together with get rich quick schemes, there are the so called health alerts from relatives, friends, or even from people we hardly know. Like the following samples:
Shampoo
It is very strong. It is also proven that it can cause cancer in the long run.
So the hospital checked the ingredients of the product. SLS is really poisonous, if there is an acute ingestion. In other words, if you use shampoo to wash hair and not to quench thirst, then there is no danger of dying from using shampoo with SLS.
Soft drinks
Speaking thirst quenchers, it contains phosphoric acid and ethylene glycol. It supposedly so acidic it can dissolved teeth and bones. Imagine what the drink must doing to you soft intestines and stomach lining. Everything is toxic depending on the threshold limit value of the substance on humans, below which the risk of poisoning is low.
Even water can be toxic. There is such a thing as oxygen toxicity, beyond the acceptable daily intake or if water gets into certain parts of the body. Even medicine can be poisonous. People can overdose.
Toxicity depends on two things: level of the substance in the human body and exposure or duration of exposure.
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