The Chemical LifeÉ.
The
Center for Disease Control has been studying Body Burden for over a
decade. Here is a summary of
their latest report.
The
Natural Resources Defense Council has guides to reducing your exposure to
various chemicals. Here is one of
their Òsmarter livingÓ
pages. This is similar to the WebMD Health ehome page, which guides you through procedures for
improving the health of your home.
Do not read these unless you are prepared to go through everything and
get rid of a lot of things in your home.
The idea that endocrine disruptors are pervasive and serious threats to
health is now widely accepted in popular accounts; a National Institutes of
Health has just started a study on Òendocrine disrupting agentsÓ that will take
some years to finish. Here
is an overview page, listing many things NIH is
doing on the topic.
Perceptions
of risk might be a function of our socio-economic status, including sex, as
suggested in this
study from a decade ago.
It
is possible to overreact to dangerous things in our environment, or to label as
dangerous things that are not. The
movement to shun vaccines is a good example. The arguments against vaccines appear to be written by
physicians, backed by competent sources. Frontline did a program on the
vaccine controversy. Excerpts
from interviews on the illustrate the range
of arguments one finds about the issue.