Body Toxic - Softcover

BAKER, NENA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865477469 ISBN 13: 9780865477469

Verlag: North Point Press, 2009

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Book by Baker Nena

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"Nena Baker makes an exciting and eye-opening contribution to the growing public awareness of environmental health. The intimate communion between our bodies and the world around us is revealed here with uncommon clarity. Be astonished. Send "The Body Toxic" to everyone you care about."--Sandra Steingraber, author of "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks a Cancer and the Environment"

"This important book will make it impossible to ignore the inconvenient truths about products we use everyday. Be prepared to be amazed at what is known and not known about thousands of chemicals that are used in our clothes, our homes, our pizza boxes, and just about everything else." -- Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D., President, National Research Center for Women & Families "Nena Baker makes an exciting and eye-opening contribution to the growing public awareness of environmental health. The intimate communion between our bodies and the world around us is revealed here with uncommon clarity. Be astonished. Send "The Body Toxic" to everyone you care about."--Sandra Steingraber, author of "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks a Cancer and the Environment"

"Baker is neither obsessive nor alarmist. She calmly presents two decades' worth of critical research into the science and industries behind leading chemical culprits such as phthalates, pesticides, and PFOAs. In an appendix, she outlines the reasonable, manageable steps she's taken to detox her own home, body, and lifestyle." --"Plenty"

Powerful . . .An eye-opening expose. "John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

Chilling. "Kate Nolan, The Arizona Republic"

Illuminating . . . Throughout "The Body Toxic," Baker gives consumers information to help them make informed decisions.' "Seth Shulman, The Washington Post Book World"

Startling. "Elizabeth Grossman, TheOregonian""

"Powerful . . .An eye-opening expose." --John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Chilling." --Kate Nolan, The Arizona Republic

"Illuminating . . . Throughout The Body Toxic, Baker gives consumers information to help them make 'informed decisions.'" --Seth Shulman, The Washington Post Book World

"Startling." --Elizabeth Grossman, TheOregonian

"Powerful . . .An eye-opening exposé." --John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Chilling." --Kate Nolan, The Arizona Republic

"Illuminating . . . Throughout The Body Toxic, Baker gives consumers information to help them make 'informed decisions.'" --Seth Shulman, The Washington Post Book World

"Startling." --Elizabeth Grossman, TheOregonian

Reseña del editor:

We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation, that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, and organs as a consequence of womb-to-tomb exposure to industrial substances as common as the products that contain them. Almost everything we encounter—from soap to soup cans, 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.

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• Verlag: North Point Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0865477469
• ISBN 13: 9780865477469
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288