Chemical toxins caused serious health issuesnow she is young at heart
once more and at 64 is pursuing a career as an artist
An active mother, grandmother and award-winning and honored educator, Rose
Marie Raccioppi knew she had to find a solution to her health problems.
Like millions of women in America she had cleaned her home and worked in her
garden, using toxic cleaners and sprays. "Little did I know what ills the
future would bring," says Rose Marie.
A growing number of communities, physicians and medical researchers are concerned
that the liberal use of insecticides, herbicides and other chemicals on home lawns
and gardens may be hazardous to human health.
U.S. lawns and gardens use 70 million to 75 million pounds of pest-killing
ingredients annually. These substances, some of which include potential carcinogens
and hormone disrupters, may present hazards to people who apply them and may leach
into groundwater, says an article published by the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences.
"Innocently I placed weed killer on the flower and shrub beds and paid
little attention to the light headed feeling and annoying rash. I thought it would
pass," said Rose Marie.
"Spraying, cleaning, polishingall seemingly noble deeds of
a dutiful housewife resulted in headaches, skin rashes and a sinus infection that
led to the use of antibiotics," she says. "I had an allergic reaction
to the pills, which resulted in the prescription of additional medication that
brought about a pancreatic reaction and required hospitalization," she explained.
Rose Marie developed food allergies and became hypersensitive to the smell
of perfumes, tobacco, cosmetics, hair preparations, fabric finishes, carpets and
household cleaning products. She was getting headaches, nausea and fatigue.
Then the final phase of her illness beganher symptoms became unbearable:
utter fatigue, weakness, leg and knee swellings, headaches and body sores. She
also got Lichen Planus, a disease that affects the skin, the mouth, or both with
painful lesions. Rose Marie got it on her tongue and upper lip.
Rose Marie was at the end of her tether. "I could not live such a compromised
existenceI had a successful private practice serving children and
families with special education needs. I was the recipient of honors and awards,
I had three devoted sons and two beautiful grandchildren, all reasons to celebrate
this gift of life; not to be a victim of what ever was oppressing my health."
She began to search for a solution to her health problems. At a meeting with
a like-minded group of advocates for learning disabled children, Rose Marie heard
about the New York Times best-selling book Clear Body Clear Mind
by L. Ron Hubbard.
The book covers Mr. Hubbard's breakthrough research about how toxic residues
get trapped in the fatty tissue of the body and affect our healthboth
physical and mental.
"Each chapter brought me closer and closer to the conviction that this
was what I needed to consider," she says. Rose Marie investigated the places
that delivered the detoxification program outlined in the book, which is a carefully
monitored program of nutrition, vitamins, exercise and sauna to release and sweat
out the toxins trapped in the fatty tissue of the body.
Rose Marie was referred to a clinic in Sacramento that delivers this program.
Although the program was vigorous and very demanding, as the program progressed,
symptoms elevated and then subsided. The body seemed to re-experience the memory
of each toxic experience.
When she was complete on the program Rose Marie felt as though a heavy fog
had been lifted from her. "I am free of the devastating state I once lived.
I can now enjoy the love and company of my family in good health," she says.
And she felt so strongly about it that she needed to express her experience
in another medium. Rose Marie took up painting and began to create vibrant watercolors.
She is now a successful artist with her own website www.apogeeartDOTCOM.
"Each painting is a metaphor expressing the delight in life now lived,"
says Rose Marie. "I am now age 64, an exhibiting artist, published poet and
vigorous enough to maintain a private practice serving the needs of learners across
the age span."
Clear Body Clear Mind makes no medical claims and the benefits vary
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