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home and office

EMF (Electromagnetic Fields)

Over the past two decades alarms have sounded about possible health effects linked to the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) radiating from anything and everything powered by electricity.  This raises an important question: How safe are workers exposed to a wide range of electrical devices as a routine part of their jobs?  For about 100 years in [...]

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Carcinogens in microwaved food

The following is a summary of the Russian investigations published by the Atlantis Raising Educational Center in Portland, Oregon.  Carcinogens were formed in virtually all foods tested.  No test food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or heating to insure sanitary ingestion.
Here’s a summary of some of [...]

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Chemical Warfare In Our Homes

Since WWII more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals have been invented.  Most have been created from petroleum and coal tar for the purposes of chemical warfare.  The sad thing is that hardly any of these substances have been tested for safety, but have been added to our food, water and cleaning products without our consent and [...]

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Clothing/Dry Cleaning

Textiles
In the near future it will be common knowledge that most of the garments we are wearing are by-products of the petrochemical industry.  Lycra, nylon, fleece, and polyester, to name a few materials, are composed of petroleum waste products that are always marketed as the next high tech fashion breakthrough.  These cheap fibers regularly break [...]

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Computer and radiation

In the present economy the home office is fast becoming a necessity for those that are looking to make ends meet without sacrificing their lives to a dreary high rise.  Few of us are aware, however, that in assembling our home work space careful consideration must be taken not to turn our homes into toxic [...]

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Dry cleaning hazards

Dry cleaning is an extremely toxic process that uses perchlorethylene to extract blemishes from fabric while weakening the integrity of garments to make them more amenable to pressing and folding.
What is perchlorethylene?
Tetrachloroethylene, more commonly referred to as perchlorethylene or PERC, is a man-made substance widely used for dry cleaning fabrics and textiles and in metal-degreasing [...]

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Home Furnishings

the typical American home can be harmful.  Fabrics that are labeled “wrinkle-resistant” are usually treated with a formaldehyde resin.  These include no-iron sheets and bedding, curtains, sleep wear – any woven fabric, but especially polyester/cotton blends, marketed as “permanent press” or “easy care.”  More modern furniture that is made of pressed wood products emits formaldehyde [...]

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Lighting

Thomas Edison’s brilliant 1879 invention — the incandescent lamp — has transformed the way we live and work in the industrialized world.  As with any major innovation, however, there have been risks as well as benefits to artificial lighting.  From a health and safety standpoint, workplace lighting presents two major areas of concern.  The most [...]

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Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

A very common problem caused by work with keyboards is RSI.  It is possible that radiation, to which VDU operators are exposed, is responsible for RSI problems as well. RSI is caused by overexertion of muscles of the hands and lower arms.  It produces symptoms such as muscle fatigue, tightening, and stiffening of the muscles, [...]

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Sick Building Syndrome

What Is Sick Building Syndrome?
Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a situation in which occupants of a building experience acute health effects that seem to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified.  The complaints may be localized in a particular room or zone, or [...]

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