Staying Well in a Toxic World: Understanding Environmental Illness, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Chemical Injuries, and Sick Building Syndrome
Staying Well in a Toxic World reveals how the toxicity of common chemicals in products as diverse as carpeting, computers, and cosmetics affects our health. Lynn Lawson reveals how studies by the EPA, the FDA, and countless other agencies demonstrate the impact our polluted environment is having on our well-being. She looks at numerous case studies in which people who suffer from medical symptoms that cannot be relieved by their doctors have regained their health be decreasing their exposure to certain chemicals. Staying Well in a Toxic World is filled with practical information about the little understood illnesses caused by exposures to modern chemicals. Prior to the publication of this pathbreaking book there has been little coherent information for the increasing number of people afflicted by these often disabling disorders.  --Midwest Book Review