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Cargando... Slow death by rubber duck : the secret danger of everyday thingspor Rick Smith, Sarah Dopp, Bruce Lourie
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Absolutely fascinating and horrifying book about what chemicals are doing to our bodies and how prevalent they are in our environment. I'd known a lot of what this book was about but it's always good to have everything in once place to reinforce the message. After reading, I went out and bought new shampoo and tossed my one non-stick pan in favor of a cast-iron. ( ) This books contains good information about all the toxic chemicals contained in everyday household items, in beauty products, and food. I found it hard to read for one reason only, it's scary. I felt paralysed at times, debating whether to cook my eggs in my non-stick frying pan the morning after reading about Dupont and their Teflon coatings. Then I would go out for sushi and wonder how much mercury I was ingesting in that serving and try to calculate how many more times I could eat that type of food that month. And of course, my favourite shampoo, was full of suspect ingredients, some straight out bad for me type ingredients. So in the end I got over my fears, changed my shampoo, threw out some frying pans and starting eating yam tempura rolls instead of sashimi. Ignorance in bliss, but I'm glad I read this book. This is one of those books that is so hard to rate because I just don't know what would be appropriate. The writing itself was very conversational for such a hard topic as chemical awareness. The book could have easily been an essay in a medical journal filled with terms only a trained professional could understand, but instead as it followed the experiments and work of the authors it read more like a diary or a letter to a friend. The amount of toxins in everyday items is actually shocking when you think about it in terms of the products you buy and keep in your home; but what is even more shocking is the action (or non-action in most cases) of the companies who make these products they know full well to be toxic. Many simply ignore the issue, while others make an active fight to show all evidence proving them to be dangerous to be lies. I will definitely be checking labels and ingredients more vigilantly before I make my next purchases, that is for certain. Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie write about the toxic substances found in many everyday items, and the effect these substances can have for the human body. The language is delightful, easy to read, and understandable even if you don't have a degree in biology. At times this down-to-earth tone feels a little too light for the subject matter, though; I was left wondering whether there might be other considerations or details they're not covering. The book may be better enjoyed one chapter at a time rather than larger chunks. EJ 03/2010 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Science.
Self-Improvement.
Chemistry.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A look at the chemicals surrounding us that’s “hard–hitting . . . yet also instills hope for a future in which consumers make safer, more informed choices” (The 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, for one week Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe. This book—the testimony of their experience—also exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives, from the simple household dust that is polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by run–of–the–mill shampoos and toothpaste. Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better. “Undertaking a cheeky experiment in self–contamination, professional Canadian environmentalists Smith and Lourie expose themselves to hazardous everyday substances, then measure the consequences . . . Throughout, the duo weave scientific data and recent political history into an amusing but unnerving narrative, refusing to sugarcoat any of the data while maintaining a welcome sense of humor.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review.) No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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