[.ca] The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier ... (ISBN 0865714851)

Extraordinary! Highly recommended.:
The Sick House Survival Guide is one of the most compelling and informative books I've read on healthy homes in a long, long time, and I've read quite a few over the past few years as I researched this topic for my books on natural building and passive solar heating and cooling. Unlike the other books on the healthy homes, The Sick House Survival Guide delivers a much more personal and understandable message. In this extraordinary book, the author skillfully weaves a powerful (and frightening) tale of her own exhausting battle to discover the underlying causes of her mysterious and debilitating symptoms contracted soon after she and her family moved into a newly refinished home in Canada. Against all odds, including dozens of narrowly trained doctors and a highly skeptical husband, the author uncovers a multiplicity of causes for her illness: a toxic mix of chemicals outgassed by many components of her home such as newly refinished hardwood floors and electromagnetic fields given off by fluorescent lights, clocks, appliances, computers, and a host of other electronic devices. If you are experiencing unusual symptoms that you suspect are related to your home or work environment, read this book. If you know someone who complains of symptoms that doctors can't attribute to anything -- except perhaps psychiatric problems -- you owe it to your friend or relative to put this book in his or her hands. This book could help them discover the causes of their own illnesses and eliminate them from their homes -- regaining their health. If you're just interested in learning about the many ways our homes can poison us, you need to read this book. In fact, it should be required reading for every physician in the country!

For organizing balance and living healthier:
The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps To Healthier Homes by Angela Hobbs (herself a recovered victim of indoor pollution and a home environment safety activist) is an informed and informative guideline to various aspects of a typical American home that can aggravate environmentally hypersensitive individuals -- estimated to be more than 15% of all North Americans. Recommending ways to avoid, circumvent, or otherwise reduce specific aspects of modern technology that can have a negative impact upon individual health (such as too much exposure to EMFs, impure air or tap water, irritant-causing synthetic fabrics, etc.), The Sick House Survival Guide is an extremely practical, "user friendly" work for organizing balance and living healthier without necessarily retreating to a technology-bereft lifestyle.