To understand the full scope of protection available to you and your family from hazardous materials and products, explore the following resource websites and evaluate the related reading materials.  Visit this page regularly for the latest information on maintaining your healthy lifestyle.   We will continually add new updates for your reference.  We feel these supporting documents have served to enlighten many who have sought a new healthy and safe existence for themselves and their families.

SITES TO VISIT

http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/ - Informative and insightful, this site delivers confidential documentation of the major chemical manufacturing companies environmental pollution, their political connections, protections and hidden information that has effected unsuspecting populace for many years.  Read the documents and understand the history of the permeation of our environment through a complex corporate/political alliance.

http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/ - True documentation of the major players in the chemical industry, their associations with the military and the covert backroom deals to maintain the status quo.

http://www.igc.org/psr - Site organized by Boston Physicians Group educating the medical community regarding environmental hazards.

http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/virtualhouse/index.asp - Educate yourself regarding household contaminants at this reader-friendly site.  Includes alphabetical listings of harmful properties and products to avoid for the care and protection of your family.

http://www.epa.gov/kidshometour - Environmental Protection Agency utilizes a virtual home tour to identify toxic substances found in homes.  A helpful room-by-room Q & A is especially educational.

http://www.preventingharm.org/execsum.html - Consumer-oriented site focused on the care and protection of children that delivers valuable information relative to the maintenance of a healthy home environment and prevention of toxic exposure of children.

http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/index.htm - Cancer Prevention Coalition site listing 18 primary points of toxic ingestion.   Question and answer format sets informative basis for data, including safe alternatives.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Education/CASLE/fragrance.html - This no frills site is simple yet enlightening regarding the toxic content of fragrances.  The Citizens For a Safe Learning Environment have listed the toxins alphabetically and have included a list of symptoms for reaction to the fragrance ingredients.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ehp/ehd/psb/cosmetics/faq.htm - Sponsored by the Product Safety Bureau of Health Canada this easily navigated site offers some critical information regarding subject areas ranging from cosmetics to environmental chemicals.  With a question and answer format, the site is informative and maintains current data on safety issues including latest product recalls and it allows the visitor to download publications for future reference.

http://www.immunesupport.com/library/bulletinarticle.cfm?ID=3404&EM=
030602&PROD=PH28 - ImmuneSupport.com site outlines the impact environmental toxins have on the immune system.  With many difficult to diagnose health issues becoming increasingly widespread this site offers some enlightening answers.

BOOKS

The Safe Shopper’s Bible, David Steinman & Samuel Epstein, MacMillan, NY, 1995
Perfect reference source for evaluation of products brought into the home.

Drop Dead Gorgeous:  Protecting Yourself from the Hidden Dangers of Cosmetics,
Kim Erickson, McGraw-Hill, 2002
At what price beauty?  There are alternatives - as outlined in the book that all women should read.

Home Safe Home, Debra Lynn Dadd, Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1997
Internationally recognized consumer advocate delivers invaluable tips to avoid toxic contamination of your home and family.  A must read for every household.

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