After I got home from taking the garbage out yesterday ( read Waste Not Want Not below ) I rededicated myself to treading lightly on my adventure through life. We set up a better system for recycling in our house, we vacuumed and put together a box for the goodwill.
Then I went to my favorite news site and was reading the health news when I came across the article below from the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
So, if you are reading this blog please read on and consider changing out all of the toxins in your house for a few simple items that will add tremendous benefit for you and your family and have less of an impact on our world.
Pollution at home often lurks unrecognized
Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:42am EST
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many people may be surprised by the number of chemicals they are exposed to through everyday household products, a small study finds, suggesting, researchers say, that consumers need to learn more about sources of indoor pollution.
In interviews with 25 women who’d had their homes and bodies tested for various environmental pollutants, researchers found that most were surprised and perplexed by the number of chemicals to which they’d been exposed.
The women had been part of a larger study conducted by the Silent Spring Institute in which their homes and urine samples were tested for 89 environmental contaminants — including pesticides and chemicals found in plastics, cleaning products and cosmetics.
An average of 20 chemicals was detected for each study participant.
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