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This “hard-hitting” look at hazardous everyday chemicals “instills hope for a future in which consumers make safer, more informed choices” (Washington Post).
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal.
The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point,...
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal.
The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point,...
2) The body toxic: how the hazardous chemistry of everyday things threatens our health and well-being
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North Point Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Almost everything we encounter--from soap to soup cans and computers to clothing--contributes to a chemical load unique to each of us. Scientists studying the phenomenon refer to it as "chemical body burden," and in The Body Toxic, the investigative journalist Nena Baker explores the many factors that have given rise to this condition--from manufacturing breakthroughs to policy decisions to political pressure to the demands of popular culture. While...
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Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Women's health pioneer, Suzanne Somers, aims to provide readers with an arsenal of solutions for thriving, not just surviving in an increasingly toxic world. Suzanne interviews cutting-edge doctors in the fields of environmental medicine and integrative health, providing a clear identification of the core reasons we're so 'tox-sick' as well as a whole-life plan for detoxifying your body, home, and life for optimal health, weight, and living"--
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of "sensitives"-people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that have no effect on "normals.""--
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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"After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida's newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he'd been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell's rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile "bubble" in the remote Arizona desert. As his career and marriage dissolved, Bell pursued medical treatments in a race...
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Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Is the shift to renewable energy and digital devices going to free us from severe pollution, material shortages, and military tensions? Rare metals are essential to electric vehicles, fighter jets, wind turbines, and solar panels, and also to our smartphones, computers, tablets, and other everyday connected objects. But consumers know very little about how they are mined and traded, or the environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs of this dependence....
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