The healthy home : simple truths to protect your family from hidden household dangers
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The healthy home : simple truths to protect your family from hidden household dangers
AUTHOR:
Wentz, Dave.
Wentz, Myron, 1940-
Wallace, Donna K.
ISBN:
9781593156886
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Vanguard Press, c2011.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xiii, 284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
ABSTRACT:
Welcome -- The bedroom. There's the rub ; The body electric! ; Sleepytime ; Simple solutions summary -- The bathroom. Let's get personal ; Bright., white, and pearly ; Don't be a dope ; Simple solutions summary -- The kitchen. For the love of food ; Let's get cooking ; Drink up! ; Simple solutions summary -- Living areas. Clean living ; High tech, high risk ; Simple solution summary -- The garage and yard. Gremlins in the garage ; Going green in your yard ; Simple solutions summary.
"Did you know?...We poison our children and pets to kill a fly...We get a dose of antibiotics every day--whether we have a prescription or not...We need Hazmat suits to clean up a broken energy-efficient CFL light bulb. In 'The Healthy Home' father-and-son team Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz walk readers room-by-room through a typical house, pointing out the surprising health risks posed by everyday products and behaviors of any modern family..."-- Dust jacket flap.
SUBJECT:
| Housing and health. |
| Indoor air pollution -- Prevention. |
| Housekeeping -- Environmental aspects. |
| Home economics -- Environmental aspects. |
| Household supplies -- Toxicology. |
| Natural products. |
| Environmental health. |
| Health risk assessment. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Welcome -- The bedroom. There's the rub ; The body electric! ; Sleepytime ; Simple solutions summary -- The bathroom. Let's get personal ; Bright., white, and pearly ; Don't be a dope ; Simple solutions summary -- The kitchen. For the love of food ; Let's get cooking ; Drink up! ; Simple solutions summary -- Living areas. Clean living ; High tech, high risk ; Simple solution summary -- The garage and yard. Gremlins in the garage ; Going green in your yard ; Simple solutions summary.
"Did you know?...We poison our children and pets to kill a fly...We get a dose of antibiotics every day--whether we have a prescription or not...We need Hazmat suits to clean up a broken energy-efficient CFL light bulb. In 'The Healthy Home' father-and-son team Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz walk readers room-by-room through a typical house, pointing out the surprising health risks posed by everyday products and behaviors of any modern family..."--