Naturally Clean or Tcm

Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning

Author: Jeffrey Hollender

Compelling evidence links the chemicals in household products to cancer, asthma, allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome-also known as environmental illness-hormonal disruption, reproductive and developmental disorders, and other conditions. Yet cleaning products are exempt from the full ingredient disclosure on product labels as required for food and personal care products and enter the marketplace with little or no testing for potential health risks.

Naturally Clean explains the dangers of traditional cleaners and provides illuminating statistics that illustrate how the chemicals found in almost every home are known or likely to cause a host of serious health problems. The book's easy-to-understand introduction discusses basic household chemistry, concepts of toxicity and types of toxic exposure, and the difference between natural, organic, and synthetic chemicals.

A room-by-room guide provides tips for:

A healthier kitchen
Keeping your bedrooms safe
Mold, mildew, and soap scum: spotless bathrooms
Special precautions for cleaning children's rooms

Naturally Clean also features a comprehensive product selection guide that analyzes over 300 natural and traditional cleaners: everything from laundry products through oven cleaners, disinfectants, spot removers, carpet cleaners, and bathroom cleaners. This handy, easy-to-use reference rates the household cleaning products found on the shelves of natural food and grocery stores, providing Seventh Generation's pick of your healthiest and safest options. A resource guide tells readers where to find additional information, and an at-a-glance glossaryhelps understand key terms.

Royalties from the sale of Naturally Clean will benefit the Children's Health Environmental Coalition (www.checnet.org) in their efforts to educate parents about environmental toxins that can affect children's health.

Jeffrey Hollender is president of Seventh Generation, Inc., the leading brand of natural household products, and author of the bestseller How To Make the World a Better Place. He speaks on social and environmental responsibility worldwide.

Geoff Davis is a freelance writer and editor of Seventh Generation's consumer newsletter Non-Toxic Times.

Meika Hollender is an author who specializes in personal care products.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : protecting the place called home
Ch. 1	Here come the chemicals	3
Ch. 2	Our homes as test tubes	5
Ch. 3	Household chemicals and cancer	7
Ch. 4	Household chemicals and asthma	11
Ch. 5	Household chemicals and hormonal disruption	13
Ch. 6	Household chemicals and multiple chemical sensitivities	17
Ch. 7	The burden our bodies bear	19
Ch. 8	Toward safer homes and healthier families	21
Ch. 9	A short history of chemicals	25
Ch. 10	Top of the POPs	27
Ch. 11	Bad behavior	29
Ch. 12	Acute vs. chronic	35
Ch. 13	What dose makes the poison?	37
Ch. 14	A quick look at material safety data sheets	41
Ch. 15	Household chemicals and the world outside	43
Ch. 16	The incredible case of the shrinking label	49
Ch. 17	Test- and approval-free for you and me	53
Ch. 18	Meet the usual suspects	55
Ch. 19	Unpronounceably unhealthy	61
Ch. 20	Germ warfare and human welfare	63
Ch. 21	Ten key ways to read labels and avoid toxic products	67
Ch. 22	Trouble in paradise	71
Ch. 23	Recipe for safety : making your own household cleaners	79
Ch. 24	Coming clean in the kitchen, part one	81
Ch. 25	Coming clean in the kitchen, part two	83
Ch. 26	Coming clean in the kitchen, part three	85
Ch. 27	Perfluorochemicals	89
Ch. 28	Beating a better path to a healthier bath	93
Ch. 29	Devils in the dust	97
Ch. 30	Fighting the fungus among us	101
Ch. 31	Clearly cleaner windows	103
Ch. 32	What to pour on your floor	107
Ch. 33	Airing our dirty laundry	109
Ch. 34	Ten safety precautions for using chemical cleaners	111
Ch. 35	Why our littlest ones face the largest risk from our homes' biggest hazards	115
Ch. 36	A baker's dozen ways to help kids breathe easier	119
Ch. 37	Just say no to VOCs	123
Ch. 38	Phthalates are no phun	127
Ch. 39	Tin soldiers on : an age-old material is a new toxic threat	131
Ch. 40	How's the air in there?	135
Ch. 41	Something in the air the most common indoor air pollutants	139
Ch. 42	Indoor air repair	143
Ch. 43	A room-by-room guide to better breathing	147
Ch. 44	Air vs. machine : cleaning your air with filters and purifiers	151
Ch. 45	Air fresheners stink	155
Ch. 46	Use the power of plants to grow a healthy harvest of cleaner air	157
Ch. 47	Ending bad air days one breath at a time	161

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Tcm: A Natural Guide to Weight Loss That Lasts

Author: Nan Lu

The Dragon's WayTo Natural, Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss

Here at last is the secret to taking off pounds and inches and keeping them off for life. Unlike popular "miracle" diet programs and products, The Dragon's Way addresses the root cause of your weight problems and offers a remarkable six-week program that shows you how to reach your optimum weight and stay there. The Dragon's Way is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theories that have been practiced for thousands of years. Today billions of people worldwide benefit from this medical system. The Dragon's Way is not about food restrictions, apetite suppression, or vigorous exercising. It's about treating the whole person instead of focusing on weight; about how to use ancient energy movements to awaken your healing ability; about showing you how to use food as a healing tool; and about helping you achieve the harmony and balance in your own body that can result in natural, healthy, permanent weight loss.

Discover:

• How the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach differs from diet programs
• How this TCM program makes you feel better physically and emotionally
• How stress causes weight problems
• How food cravings signal body needs
• Why depriving your body of food leads to further weight gain
• Healing foods and recipes that help you eliminate excess water and body fat
• Herbal supplements and energy movements that encourage body harmony and help you avoid excess wieght
• Additional health benefits beyond wieght loss
• And Much More!