What Doctors Dont Tell You - Safe Living.pdf Gooner

We can’t help being exposed to dangerous pollutants in our environment – but we can reduce our levels, if we know where the dangers lurk. Safe Living is an exhaustive review of every type of pollutant and poison we might encounter – in our home, in the water we drink and wash in, and even the cosmetics we use every day.

Contents

Hazards in the home

2 Painting by poisons
4 Flame retardants: playing with fire
6 Carpets: the chemicals underfoot
8 Pesticides: poison at your fingertips
10 Air fresheners: far from fresh
12 Triclosan: antibacterial time bomb
14 Natural gas: it’s green, but is it safe?
16 Teflon: its safety story doesn’t stick
18 DIY dangers: MDF
19 Dry cleaning: clean – but deadly
21 Big problems in tiny packages
23 Poison in your shopping basket

Electropollution

26 Power lines: short circuits to illness
30 Wireless technology: something in the air
34 Brain waves: the autism link
39 Mobile phones: DNA damage discovered
41 Casting a shadow on fluorescent lights
43 Filthy frequencies
45 The dark side of light

Water worries

47 There’s something in the water. . .
51 Tapping into pure water
53 Poisoning the wells
55 Fluoride and bone cancer
57 Bottled water everywhere

Killer cosmetics

59 Toxic chemicals make killer makeup
61 The problem with perfume
63 Sunscreens: protection at a price
65 Hair colours to die for

The threat from outdoors

67 Fear of flying – with good reason
69 Artificial turf: not-so-fantastic plastic
71 Diesel: a better alternative?
73 Every breath we take