The healthy home
Subtitle: simple truths to protect your family from hidden household dangers
By: Dave Wentz and Dr. Myron Wentz ; with Donna K. Wallace
Contributors: Wentz, Myron, 1940-; Wallace, Donna K.
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781593156558
Subjects: Home economics; Housekeeping; Indoor air pollution; Household equipment and supplies; Environmental aspects; Houses; Natural products; Health aspects; Toxicology; Environmental health; Prevention; Housing and health; Household supplies; Health risk assessment
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome; title: The bedroom. There's the rub ; The body electric! ; Sleepytime ; Simple solutions summary; title: The bathroom. Let's get personal ; Bright., white, and pearly ; Don't be a dope ; Simple solutions summary; title: The kitchen. For the love of food ; Let's get cooking ; Drink up! ; Simple solutions summary; title: Living areas. Clean living ; High tech, high risk ; Simple solution summary; title: The garage and yard. Gremlins in the garage ; Going green in your yard ; Simple solutions summary.