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Toxic Free

How To Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick
by Debra Lynn Dadd
Toxic Free: How To Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick. Tarcher: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2011. c.272p. illus. index. ISBN 9781585428700. pap. $15.95. HEALTH
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Longtime consumer advocate Dadd (Home Safe Home) offers advice on how to purge your home of hazardous substances to improve health and quality of life. Cleaning products, household textiles, food, and other everyday substances that can contain harmful toxins are discussed. Suggestions on how to live toxin free accompany each section. Dadd also discusses the dangers of environmental contaminants such as pesticides and air pollution. Appendixes educate readers further on human physiology, the effects of toxic exposure, and how to identify harmful substances. This book is much more comprehensive in scope than the onslaught of titles that limit their focus to specific kinds of materials—beauty or cleaning products, for example. Similar titles published in recent years include Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz's The Healthy Home and Beth Greer's Super Natural Home.
VERDICT The book is well organized and informative but would benefit from citations to better illustrate the hazards and health implications discussed. Those looking for a primer on household toxins and suggested alternatives will enjoy this resource.
Reviewed by Erin Silva Fisher, Univ. of Nevada, Reno , Sep 01, 2011
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