Ingesting a diluted bleach solution to combat diseases, while insane, is a movement gaining popularity as it spreads across the country, from Vancouver to St. Johns, and it isn’t just adults that are doing it.
According to an investigative report by the CBC that was part of a broadcast on Mar. 4, members of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing are claiming this so-called ‘miracle mineral solution’ can protect people from 95 per cent of the world’s diseases – things like HIV/AIDS or cancer, and they are even treating autistic children with it.
Whether it is three drops or thirty in a cup of water, bleach is no less caustic.
South of the border, the Food &Drug Administration recently issued a warning to consumers with regards to Miracle Mineral Supplements (MMS), citing a more than 28 per cent concentration of sodium chlorite in distilled water and categorized such ‘miracle cures’ as toxic.
Ordinarily, bottles of bleach are required to display warning symbols in easy-to-see areas, and this is done to protect companies in the event of a harmful or fatal interaction, as well as the average citizen who picks up the product for whatever reason to use it at home.
Health Canada does not condone the practice of diluting and ingesting bleach.
Instead, spokespeople have been quick to condemn this type of supplement and have gone on the record as saying that any product that contains sodium chlorite, as this solution being pushed by Church of Health and Healing clearly does, may pose serious health risks if ingested.
In case anyone was wondering, there is no actual scientific evidence that any of the claims made by Jim Humble, the man responsible for MMS, are true.
Bleach is bleach.
The dictionary defines it as a substance that de-colours things in the same manner as the sun might, to whiten them, and it removes stains from all manner of fabrics relatively well.
As an industrial-grade cleaning agent, bleach was not intended as a food source, nor was it designed to be used in a person’s bathing water.
You won’t find it on any grocery store shelf beside the carrots or the celery.
The Barrhead Leader acknowledges a variety of alternative medicines have been approved by the provincial and federal governments as acceptable treatments and therapies, but we would like to stress to our readers that products such as Jim Humble’s miracle mineral solution is not, was not, and in all likelihood, will never be accepted as such.
Remember, bleach is dangerous.
If it wasn’t, don’t you think that all of the workplace safety sessions and the repetitive reminders to wear gloves would have been un-necessary?
Those symbols take up valuable advertising space don’t they?
Bleach does not cure autism. Please don’t give it to your children.
