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Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call
This book was written to increase your awareness about the potentially tragic, harmful effects of the numerous chemicals to which we are all exposed on a daily basis. This book will help you figure out when and where you were exposed and discuss the many different ways chemicals can affect you and your loved ones.
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511 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2003
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March 10, 2012
I wish this book could be read by everyone that has children or is considering having children, particularly in the USA. The author paints a scary picture, but I don't think she is in the least alarmist in this book, she is just giving is the facts in a no-nonsense tone that lets the facts speak for themselves.
The book is very specific to the USA, but is still a useful read for non-US readers.
I realise it'd be a big task and outside the author's field of knowledge and maybe interest, but I would have liked a bit of information added about how the situation in the US compares with countries such as Australia, NZ, Canada and the UK etc. I know we don't have it anywhere near as bad as in the US, but I'd really like to know how we all compare.
The book contains good and detailed information on which chemicals to avoid and where they lurk, as well as what the signs are of chemical exposures and some of the ways they can be treated and how the political situation in the US has allowed chemical companies to place their profits so far above above the safety of the public.
(This last issue has particular relevance to M.E. patients, as they are already being denied their basic rights due to vested interest groups putting money making above human rights, with the full knowledge and support of government. The quotes below are all just as relevant to M.E. and the 'CFS' bogus disease category as to issues about chemicals.)
The author should be congratulated on writing such an excellent book. I hope it gets the wide readership it deserves, and not just amongst those of us that react badly to common chemicals already due to illness (such as M.E. and M.S. patients etc.). If these issues of corruption keep being ignored then the future of people all over the world is looking fairly grim.
My favourite quotes form the book:
"We must live by a higher than ordinary standard of principles if our world is to survive. I believe we all have to take off the blinders"
"It is everyone's responsibility to become more aware of what can happen, and whenever possible, to take action to protect those who are in danger. It could happen to you."
"We have some clever creative scientists and greedy executives and lawyers working in industries who care more about their personal economics than the future of the human race."
(From the book 'The Politics of Cancer, quoted in this book), "The pattern of industry-sponsored fraudulent scientific research, supported by bribed public officials and corporate controlled mass-media is so common that it can be considered 'business as usual' in the US."
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
The book is very specific to the USA, but is still a useful read for non-US readers.
I realise it'd be a big task and outside the author's field of knowledge and maybe interest, but I would have liked a bit of information added about how the situation in the US compares with countries such as Australia, NZ, Canada and the UK etc. I know we don't have it anywhere near as bad as in the US, but I'd really like to know how we all compare.
The book contains good and detailed information on which chemicals to avoid and where they lurk, as well as what the signs are of chemical exposures and some of the ways they can be treated and how the political situation in the US has allowed chemical companies to place their profits so far above above the safety of the public.
(This last issue has particular relevance to M.E. patients, as they are already being denied their basic rights due to vested interest groups putting money making above human rights, with the full knowledge and support of government. The quotes below are all just as relevant to M.E. and the 'CFS' bogus disease category as to issues about chemicals.)
The author should be congratulated on writing such an excellent book. I hope it gets the wide readership it deserves, and not just amongst those of us that react badly to common chemicals already due to illness (such as M.E. and M.S. patients etc.). If these issues of corruption keep being ignored then the future of people all over the world is looking fairly grim.
My favourite quotes form the book:
"We must live by a higher than ordinary standard of principles if our world is to survive. I believe we all have to take off the blinders"
"It is everyone's responsibility to become more aware of what can happen, and whenever possible, to take action to protect those who are in danger. It could happen to you."
"We have some clever creative scientists and greedy executives and lawyers working in industries who care more about their personal economics than the future of the human race."
(From the book 'The Politics of Cancer, quoted in this book), "The pattern of industry-sponsored fraudulent scientific research, supported by bribed public officials and corporate controlled mass-media is so common that it can be considered 'business as usual' in the US."
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
August 2, 2016
This doctor opened her practice in the 1960's near my home.Everyone thought she was a "kook",including me.But since 1988 I have come to realize just how far ahead of her time she really was. Back in the 1960's you could not smoke or wear perfume in her office and told to get off all chemical foods, etc. I thought that was just crazy.When doctors didn't know what to do with you, somehow patients found their way to her. I have so much respect for this doctor.all doctors should take some cues from her.She truly is into health and wellness,an allergy and chemical sensitivity environmental doctor before we knew that allergies were not just trees and pollen,but had many underlying sources. I just discovered this book and started going thru it. One very smart woman and and decades ahead of her time.This book covers it all! This is abt health and wellness and our toxic world.
May 8, 2010
An unsettling book to be sure, but describes very well what my family has gone through in some sections. Gave me hope for answers in times of deepest doubt. It is a revealing overview of some of the symptoms and sources of toxins in our lives.
July 3, 2012
One of my favorite books. What an achievement. Rapp really is an early pioneer of advocating how toxins in our world are damaging not only our environment but our bodies too! A must read.
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