Have you ever given it a thought? Do you control the air you breathe? Can you make sure that the air that enters into your body is clean and nutritional to improve your health and well being instead of being polluted and making you sick? Most people will answer “no” to this question. In the next few pages I will show you that it is very important for all of us to understand how vital air is for us humans and how it affects our health and wellness. Aroma Biotechnology is an evolving new way to solve these problems. I will share some little known natural healing secrets with you. This valuable information just might help cure your disease and add several healthy enjoyable years to your life.
My name is Monika Sugiarto and no I'm not a doctor. I am the mother of a daughter who was diagnosed with asthma symptoms. She is a roller skater, and athlete and is training sometimes very heard in the midst of our very polluted city of Jakarta. The doctor prescribed various medicines that, used over prolonged periods, are found to be giving side effects. At about the same time a friend of mine introduced me to a natural Bio Aroma-Technology product he had started to market. Of course I was very skeptical but was also looking for natural ways to help and hopefully cure my daughter’s asthma symptoms. And I tried the product with great success; my daughter’s breathing improved literally over night. And the best thing of all, we - the whole family - can breathe in the healthy nutritional air together without any side effects!
As a mother always wanting the best for her children I got really intrigued. I started to do some research on health and the effects air pollution can have on us and our children and what we can do to stay fit and healthy. Here is the result of my reading and studying and I hope from the bottom of my heart that you will learn some important facts about yourself and how to keep your productivity at its best by improving your health and well-being through healthy nutritional air!
According to the data of WHO every year an estimated 3 million people die because of air pollution or about 5% of the 55 million deaths annually world wide. 1,500 millions of the premature deaths occur in Asian cities. Many more suffer serious health effects from air pollution. The working lives of many are shortened by health problems from breathing filthy air. Six of the world’s 15 most polluted cities are found in Asia. The top positions go to 1. Katmandu, Nepal, 2. New Delhi, India, 3. Jakarta, Indonesia together with Chongqing, China. 4. Calcutta, India. A third of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions are puffed out in this region.Are you losing sleep over air pollution?
World Bank in Asia estimates that a great number of people in urban East Asia and the Pacific lose more than 12 productive years due to disability caused by air pollution. The World Health Organization puts the cost at billions of dollars in medical care to cure the people who suffer from the illnesses caused by air pollution. The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI), a project launched in 2001 by the Asian Development Bank and World Bank, does realize that air quality in Asia has worsened in recent years due to increasing urbanization and an increase in polluting emissions in many cities.
The situation can improve through better air quality management by governments backed by greater public awareness of the problem. A good example is Bangkok, where visibility at the airport improved from about five kilometers in 1996 to nine kilometers in 2000.
The World Bank document ”Estimating the health effects of air pollutants: a method with an application to Jakarta” mentions that: “The results for Jakarta suggest that significant benefits result from reducing exposure to both outdoor and indoor air pollutants. For example, if annual concentrations of particulate matter were reduced to the midpoint of the World Health Organization guideline (and former U.S. ambient standard), the estimates indicate a reduction per year of 1,400 premature deaths (with a range of 900 to 1,900) 49,000 emergency room visits, 600,000 asthma attacks, 7.6 million restricted activity days (including work loss), 124,000 cases of bronchitis in children and 37 million minor respiratory symptoms. In the case of Jakarta, the methodology suggests that reducing exposure to lead and nitrogen dioxide should also be a high priority. An important consequence of ambient lead pollution is a reduction in learning abilities for children, measured as IQ loss.”
Respiratory diseases the top killer an article by Sari P. Setiogi (The Jakarta Post, 12. Sept. 2003) ”Respiratory diseases have become the number one killer in Indonesia, up from number three in 1997 and number six in 1993, an expert says. Pulmonologist Ida Bernida said on Thursday that air pollution had worsened in the past decade, exacerbating respiratory diseases, including tuberculosis (TBC), asthma, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumonia. He said cardiovascular diseases and cancer were the number two and three killers respectively.
The fact for Jakarta is that air pollution will increase in the future rather than improve mainly due to the growing number in motor vehicles. About 70% of Jakarta’s air pollution stems from pollutants puffed in the air by motor vehicles, while the remaining 30% comes from industrial emissions. Jakarta’s Traffic Police Division predicts the growth of the number of vehicles as around 5% per month. Those vehicles consume an enormous amount of diesel fuel, premium gasoline, kerosene and gas fuel. Most of the diesel fuel sold in Jakarta is low quality and gives off a lot of sulfur pollutants. Although the government has introduced unleaded gasoline to improve the air in Jakarta, experts say the capital’s air still contains the hazardous substance, one reason being that thousands of vehicles from outside Greater Jakarta travel here every day and they emit lead. A high lead content in human blood, particularly children, can cause anemia, lower intelligence, cause behavioral problems, affect fertility, and disrupt the nervous system. The phasing out of leaded gasoline is a significant achievement that should be continued. At the same time the public should also be informed that the substance that replaces lead and is called the high octane mogas component (HOMC) has a high content of olefin and aromatic. Like lead, olefin and aromatic is dirty octane, which could affect both the vehicle’s machine as well as the health of people in Jakarta. Although the administration requires vehicle owners to take emission tests, 77.6% of public and commercial vehicles in the city did not pass the test. A majority of private cars also failed the test. A positive step towards improving the air in our city is to provide more green areas. A tree can absorb gas pollutants and neutralize them through its metabolism. It can also absorb small particles measuring less than 10 microns. The administration’s target of a mere 13.9% of green area in Jakarta by the year 2010 is insufficient to neutralize the highly polluted air. The ideal ratio of green space recommended by environmentalists and the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) should be 30%. Air pollution is not only affecting the area where it happens. The winds, air pressure, storms take the particles to far away regions and countries. Therefore scientists do refer to forests as lungs of our earth. Indonesia is home to the third-largest tropical forest after Brazil and the Congo. But every two years, Indonesia loses about four million hectares of forest, an area roughly the size of Switzerland due to logging and burning. If this rate continues by 2010 most forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan will disappear and air pollution will increase dramatically.
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