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Garlic

Garlic is very pungent, but only a small amount of this smelly substance is needed to stimulate the natural liver enzymes that help the body flush out toxins. It also contains a lot of allicin and selenium, which aid in liver cleansing.

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One wonders to what degree any newfound alarmism about the vulnerability of black children to environmental lead can succeed, given the abiding construction of affinities between racist constructions of blackness and those of lead, long integral to the American racial and gendered corporeal imaginary. A racial construction of blacks as already unruly, violent, contaminated, and mentally deficient lies inherent in the current neoliberal economy, which not only positions people of color in a labor hierarchy that matches them with literally disabling forms of manual labor, but is also conditioned and supported by a growing and incredibly powerful prison industrial complex structured according to race, class, and gender. If lead exposure itself is associated with cognitive delay, enhanced aggressivity, impulsivity, convulsions, and mental lethargy, then we might read such characterizations of blackness as attributions, or intimations, of disability, as much as we already understand them as damaging racial profiles.

Mel Chen, "Lead's Racial Matters," Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. pp.183-184.

Stunning chapter on how words and inanimate objects gain meaning (or animacy) and how such meanings are imbued with racial, sexual, and (dis)ability meanings and inequalities. Chen beautifully puts into words what we already know about race, health, and toxicity but Chen reemphasizes the tangible violence and destruction words and animated objects (for neoliberal use) cause to 'harmful, toxic, unwanted' bodies.

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The Chinese toy panic in 2007 was a twist on an earlier theme in recent U.S. history regarding the toxicity of lead. Since 1978, the year that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission banned residential pain containing lead, there have been public-awareness campaigns and legislation regarding exposure from house pain. Lead-based paint is present in many buildings constructed before 1978, though public-awareness campaigns and municipal abatement programs have been quite successful in reducing the threat of residential lead to the middle and upper classes. More recently, however, environmental justice activists from polluted neighborhoods and public health advocates have insisted that lead toxicity remains a problem for children in impoverished neighborhoods. Lead poisoning among black children was thus figured as an epidemiological crisis linked to the pollution of neighborhoods populated largely by people of color, including older buildings whose once-widespread lead paint had not been remediated, and where lead-polluting industrial centers were located. But in 2007, news media coverage this kind of lead toxicity began to float and fade, overtaken by the heightening transnational significance of lead. Toys from China quickly became the primary source of threat, displacing this previous concern. I thus argue that a new material-semiotic form of lead emerged in 2007. This new lead was, despite its physiological identity to the old lead, taking on a new meaning and political character and becoming animated in novel ways. Why were painted trains and beaming middle-class white children chosen to represent the lead toxicity this time? If the spread of transnational commodities reached into all classes and privileges, how did middle-class white children morph into the primary victims of this environmental lead, when poor black children had previously been represented as subject to the dangers of domestic lead?

Mel Chen, "Lead's Racial Matters," Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. p 166.

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“I always doubted auditioning because of my weight. I’ve always acted and pursued theater – it was something I had always wanted to do when I was young. But I felt I would be rejected because of my physical appearance. Orange is the New Black has given me the opportunity to show that I have curves and I have talent too. It’s been a battle, you know, because I’ve never been skinny. But I’ve embraced it. Now I have the opportunity to show everyone that this is sexy. I can dress in the same attire as someone else and carry myself in a sexy manner, a beautiful manner and a prideful manner. What matters is how I play the role – not my size.”

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