s a writer, I've always imagined having a little shop where I could share my favorite books with my readers, and now, with the magic of the Internet, here it is! 
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Benjamin Franklin
Toxics
Toxic Free
Free Yourself from the Harmful Effects of Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Consumer Products
Exposure to toxic chemicals in consumer products underlies virtually every symptom and illness. Toxic chemicals are now so common in our world that reducing toxic chemicals in your home and your body is now necessary for good health. Easy to read and filled with practical tips. Toxic Free tells how to both reduce the amount of toxic chemicals you are exposed to and increase your body's ability to process and remove the toxic chemicalsalready stored within it.
Read more at debralynndadd.com/toxic-free-book
Plastic
Confused about plastics? This basic primer about plastic explains all: what it is, how it's made, how it's used, and how it effects our health and the environment. Today it's virtually impossible to go through a day without any type of plastic, yet, by understanding plastics, we can choose those that are least toxic, and eliminate those plastics for which there are alternatives. This easy-to-read book decribes our history with plastic through common household items, visits to factories, and real-life dilemmas regarding using plastics, showing in vivid detail plastic from manufacture to recycling (or infiniate afterlife in a landfill).
Detoxify or Die
How toxic chemicals affect your health and how to remove them from your body
This title is alarming, but true to the book's content. Dr. Rogers clearly makes her point--toxic chemical exposures we encounter in everyday life can kill or disable our bodies. She cites hundreds of studies about the toxic effects of chemicals we commonly come in contact with, and then tells in great detail the difficulty our bodies have in processing these un-natural substances and what we can do to help our bodies detox. It's pretty technical, but easy to read.
Toxic Metal Syndrome
Toxic metals and how they harm our health
I've put most of my attention over the years on eliminating toxic chemicals made from petroleum from my home, but there is a whole other class of toxic substances: toxic metals. Though this book was written as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's, it contains a lot of basic information about toxic metals--our exposures to them and how they affect our health--which we all need to know. Included are aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, iron, and manganese.
Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Two guys experiment with toxics in their own bodies.
Two Canadian environmentalists decided to ingest "a whole bunch of suspected substances" to see what effect they had on their bodies. They chose seven common chemicals, giving themselves common exposures and monitoring their bodies with blood and urine samples. Their conclusion? Simple changes in consumer choices can detox our lives. An easy-to-read, very interesting personal account that shows the necessity of eliminating toxic chemicals from our lives if we wish to be healthy.
Our Chemical Lives and The Hijacking of Our DNA
A detailed look at how toxic chemicals affect our bodies at a cellular level.
This well-researched book presents an in-depth analysis of how chemicals enter our bodies and penetrate cellular nuclei, resulting in DNA mutations that lead to many diseases. Chapters cover toxic exposures in food, scented products, new cars, tobacco, pesticides, endocrine distruptors, products made in China, genetically-modified organisms, water, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, cosmetics, indoor air pollution, and heavy metals. If you want to know where the toxic chemicals are, this book will give you the overview. Most of the book is an alert to the dangers, and not many solutions, however, this can be forgiven as the author recommends my book Home Safe Home.
The Body Restoration Plan
Exposure to toxic chemicals can make you fat
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton is a medical doctor with an academic doctorate in human metabolism from the University of Oxford. One evening she was reading the newspaper and an article on the powerful hormone-damaging actions of pesticides caught her eye. What really grabbed her attention was that the small amount of chemicals needed to wreak such havoc with our sex hormones was not too different from the small amount of toxic chemicals the average person is exposed to every day. The thought came to her that if these chemicals had the power to alter our hormones so drastically, then they must also have some sort of influence on our weight. She ran for one of her biggest medical textbooks and found what she was looking for: “Changes in sex hormones can cause weight gain.” And pesticides damage sex hormones. This book explains all about how toxic chemicals hinder your body's ability to lose weight and what to do to restore your body's natural ability to maintain normal weight.
What's Toxic, What's Not
This is a great companion book to my Home Safe Home.
Where I focus mainly on the "what's not," this book focuses mainly on the "what's toxic" and gives a lot more detailed explanation about WHY you should be using all the nontoxic and natural products I recommend. Chapters cover lead, radon, mold, asbestos, food toxics, water pollutants, consumer products, indoor and outdoor air pollutants, toxics in the workplace, toxics in schools, toxics in yard and garden, power lines and EMFs, hazardous waste sites, and more. Where I have arranged Home Safe Home by product, this book is arranged by toxic exposure, and then tells the health effects of that chemical or material, where it can be found, and some nontoxic alternatives.
Why David Hated Tuesdays
My friend Amilya Antonetti wrote this book after her son was made ill by exposure to toxic chemicals in her home.
While it, like other books--including my own--is a guide to toxic exposures in the home, Amilya brings her own perspective as a mom in the issues she has chosen to address. This is a great book to give to a friend who is a mother as an introduction to the subject of household toxics, as every parent will relate to Ameliya's compelling story.
Blue Vinyl
[DVD] A documentary of one woman's quest to find out the truth about the manufacture and health effects of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),
after her parents install vinyl siding on their home. She and her trusty cinematographer travel around the world to interview environmental investigators, laboratory scientists, attorneys, widows of factory workers killed by industrial exposure. It's a horrifying view of what goes on every day in the manufacture of toxic chemicals--from communities being exposed to toxic releases from factories to signs warning against eating tainted fish in nearby waterways and a trial in which former executives from a PVC-producing company in Venice are on trial for manslaughter. But it's also the story of a woman who refuses to accept the atrocities of plastics production and tries to find a better way. She accomplishes her goal by spread the word in a manner that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. It would be great to have films like this on every toxic chemical.
