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"These toxins seep out of our furniture made with formaldehyde and our sofas made with fire retardants and are in many regular household cleaning products. It is in the stuff we use to wash our dishes with, clean our tables with, wash our toilet bowls with, and clean our clothes in. One of the "green" or environmental movement's biggest assets is that it is actually cheaper to create environments and buildings that support health, rather than those that make us sick." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and Teflon chemicals, according to a 2004 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Teflon: This chemical in cooking pots is also carcinogenic. Food should never be prepared in Teflon cookware. Use glass, cast iron, carbon steel, titanium, and enamel cookware. PVC shower-curtains: They emit a strong smell can cause serious damage to your liver as well as to the nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Geological Survey found antibiotics, hormones, plasticizers, insecticides, and fire retardants in 80 percent of the streams it tested, one-third of them containing ten or more of such chemicals. These streams are not necessarily headed for drinking water reservoirs, but they can and do leak into water systems. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a thousand or so chemicals in tap water, and sets allowable limits for about eighty of the worst of them." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"While using absolutely no bromi-nated fire retardants, all of the company's mattresses conform to all federal and state mattress laws for nonflammability. www.lifekindproducts.com Neil Kelly Run by former U.S. Army Colonel Rick Fields, Neil Kelly is making it easy for consumers to furnish their homes with eco-furni-ture. "Neil Kelly has a responsibility to continuously improve our products and processes as we work toward the goal of becoming a sustainable company," says its Web site. "We understand that a healthy future for our children and grandchildren demands that we honor this pledge." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Fire retardants and other chemicals used in fabrics and foams in furniture, mattresses, and electrical insulation can be irritating to the airway. Mold can flourish wherever there is humidity—in basements, crawl spaces, bathrooms, air conditioners, and automobile air ducts. It is crazy to treat the symptoms of allergies if you don't examine your environment and try to eliminate what's causing the problem in the first place. If you lived in a house with faulty wiring that kept blowing fuses or tripping the circuit breakers every day, it would be foolish to ignore the underlying problem." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Avoid products that are made of plastics and treated with fire retardants. >¦ If asbestos insulation materials appear soft, crumbly, or otherwise damaged, asbestos may be exposed. Do not touch it. Instead, contact a professional asbestos inspector to collect and analyze samples for asbestos. Do-it-yourselfers should not attempt asbestos repair or removal. >• Install a HEPA filter in the bedroom and main living rooms in your home, particularly if it has recently been renovated using modern, chemically treated products." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.) "These include a wide range of pesticides, medicines, toxic metals, plastics, solvents, environmental pollutants, and fire retardants." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.) "Plasticizers, like the phthalates, also possess this weight-gain effect, as do many other chemicals such as fire retardants and solvents, as can be seen in many published animal studies. Musculoskeletal Health You can't stop men from wanting more and stronger muscles and women from wanting to have firmer, more-toned muscles. This desire to enhance muscle size, strength, and tone is also shared by millions of athletes and sports competitors who compete to win. However, chemical exposure has the effect of causing muscles to shrink." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.) "A number of artificial and highly toxic compounds, which include the organochlorines, pesticides, PCBs, and the PBB fire retardants. They are particularly persistent and toxic and are not found in nature. Their difficult molecular shape (because of the halo-genated component), often makes it impossible for our bodies' waste disposal systems to see and remove them. organophosphates Synthetic organic compounds containing phosphorus, which include highly toxic pesticides and nerve gases." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

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