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Green Home, Sound Body
by Allan Richter
March 2009
Nurturing your own environment is the first step toward helping the planet.
If a damaged environment evokes only images of frightened polar bears floating on shrinking Arctic ice floes, consider the more local impact. An array of toxic household products means that it's too easy to damage the personal ecosystem housed within our own skin. So if a closer look at product labels in your house turns up a list of ingredients too difficult to pronounce, a green-home makeover may be in order.
Too daunting a prospect? "Take a step that you can do," suggests consumer advocate Debra Lynn Dadd, author of Home Safe Home (Tarcher/ Penguin). "Change the sheets on your kids' beds or try buying a bag of organic cookies. Just take one step, then another. You'll find that you will feel better. If you look at it as something that is really going to help your house in many ways, it becomes proactive, like taking vitamins."
Though "green" and "healthy" aren't always thought of as synonymous, they might as well be. What's bad for the environment often hurts our bodies, too. It's worth being vigilant. Of the 17,000 chemicals in common household products, only 3 in 10 have been tested for their effects on human health, says Beth Greer, a holistic health advocate who changed her lifestyle after being diagnosed with a benign chest tumor.
Children love to get involved in these kind of things too. Get them involved in your discussions and ask for ideas. I know a family where the kid got the family involved in recycling waste. She is now the recycle enforcer in her household. When children help to make decisions with the family or are active participants in family consultations, they tend to be passionate.
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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." �Carl Gustav Jung
Thanks for that linkkind2creatures.
Our son bought me a book for my last birthday about natural cleaning products for stains and hard to clean Items it is called 'Spotless', by Shannon Lush and Jennifer Fleming, a lot of it is common sense but there are some good tips in it,so if any one has a problem with a stain or something let me know and I will look in the book to see if there is a solution.
I try to use natural products where possible and I don't use makeup any more.
I once used a hair dye that almost made me pass out, and I believe just recently a woman died from using the same product.
our daughter used a black hair dye that she had used before but this last time it burned her scalp pretty badly.
You just have to be so careful these days what you use.
Of the 17,000 chemicals in common household products, only 3 in 10 have been tested for their effects on human health, says Beth Greer, a holistic health advocate who changed her lifestyle after being diagnosed with a benign chest tumor.
Whoa.. that's pretty scary!
Although most people should just assume that chemical cleaning products are harmful in some aspect.
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