Does
your children’s school serve lunches that provide the minimum daily
requirement of arsenic?
I’ve
been seeing a lot of posts on fb lately, talking about the nutritious
school lunches that are served to children in Europe. Mostly, these
posts are just pictures.
The
water in the entire province of Viterbo has arsenic in it at levels
so high that just drinking the water from your tap or washing in the
water can cause life-threatening health problems. I’ve got
lymphoma, a type of cancer, because I drank the water from my tap and
used it to wash.
There
are about one thousand different types of lymphoma, divided into
three main groups: one-third that will kill you quickly; one-third
that can be cured; one-third that, with the proper treatment, will
just shorten your life. I lucked out; I’ve got the kind that will
just shorten your life.
The
governments of the province of Viterbo and the European Union have
known about this problem for more than twenty years but they don’t
care enough to do anything about it. The allowable levels of arsenic
go up, the deadline for meeting the level requirements are extended,
and people are dropping dead.
If
you don’t believe me, search for Viterbo water arsenic.
I
wouldn’t be surprised if this problem is present in other parts of
Europe.
There
are filters that can be installed but they’re considered too
expensive—although they’re probably not as expensive as
chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments which, I was told by a
fellow patient when I was undergoing therapy at the day hospital,
cost €20,000
for one treatment. Multiply that by the nine I’ve had so far and it
adds up.
That
same arsenic water is used in the preparation of school lunches. No
matter how nutritious those lunches may be, using water that can give
those children cancer, heart problems, and other deadly health
conditions, is not to be considered an indication of the superiority
of European school lunches over those in the United States and is not
something to be boasting about.
Eating
nutritious meals is not going to do those children much good if they
end up dying of a heart attack at the age of forty when, if they
hadn’t drunk that water, they might have lived to be eighty-five.
Those
of us who are going to die before our time because we drank the water
in Viterbo know that plastering fb with appetizing pictures of
nutritious food isn’t going to do anybody any good.
I
think it might be more helpful to post pictures of nine-year-old
children who are dying of cancer.
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