num_pages: 245
description: A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily livesand what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back. Lurking in our homes hiding in our offices and polluting the air we breathe is something sinister. Something weve turned a blind eye to for far too long. Dr. Leonardo Trasande a pediatrician professor and world-renowned researcher tells the story of how our everyday surroundings are making us sicker fatter and poorer. Dr. Trasande exposes the chemicals that disrupt our hormonal systems and damage our health in irreparable ways. He shows us where these chemicals hidein our homes our schools at work in our food and countless other places we cant controlas well as the workings of policy that protects the continued use of these chemicals in our lives. Drawing on extensive research and expertise he outlines dramatic studies and emerging evidence about the rapid increases in neurodevelopmental metabolic reproductive and immunological diseases directly related to the hundreds of thousands of chemicals that we are exposed to every day. Unfortunately nowhere is safe. But thanks to Dr. Trasandes work on the topic and his commitment to effecting change this book can help. Through a blend of narrative scientific detective work and concrete information about the connections between chemicals and disease he shows us what we can do to protect ourselves and our families in the short-term and how we can help bring the change we deserve. 
language: English
title: Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future . . . and What We Can Do About It
publisher: Harvest