3 Easy Ways to Make Your Environment Healthier
Want to make your environment better for you -- without having to petition to move the freeway or shut down a coal plant? Not that difficult. Use these simple steps to make a big difference:
Enact your own area-wide secondhand smoke ban. Nonsmokers who hang out with smokers effectively become smokers themselves and inhale cigarettes’ more than 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic, cyanide, and DDT. (Here's a complete list of all the nasties that cigarettes contain
The best way to purify your environment -- and take down your risk of lung, cervical, and other cancers as well as heart disease, wrinkles, and erectile dysfunction -- is to keep smokers 500 feet away from you and from any entrances you walk through. You’ll have a 25% lower risk of plaque rupture -- a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes -- than people who routinely walk through secondhand smoke on the way into and out of buildings. Read more about the dangers of secondhand smoke
Move away from the printer. In one study, researchers found that a third of the office printers they tested spewed out high amounts of particles. Tiny particles not only are a hazard to your lungs, where they can lead to breathing problems, especially in people who have asthma or a weakened immune system, but may also be linked to poor artery health.
Clean yourself. We mean your clothes. If dry cleaning is optional, spare yourself the bill and the chemicals and instead hand wash the items. Dry-cleaning chemicals (trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene, or PERC) have been linked to kidney and nervous system damage as well as cancer. If you must dry clean, remove your clothes from the plastic wrap and let outdoor air circulate around them for 1 hour.
Could the air inside your house be making you sick? Here's how to find out
Want to make your environment better for you -- without having to petition to move the freeway or shut down a coal plant? Not that difficult. Use these simple steps to make a big difference:
Enact your own area-wide secondhand smoke ban. Nonsmokers who hang out with smokers effectively become smokers themselves and inhale cigarettes’ more than 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic, cyanide, and DDT. (Here's a complete list of all the nasties that cigarettes contain
The best way to purify your environment -- and take down your risk of lung, cervical, and other cancers as well as heart disease, wrinkles, and erectile dysfunction -- is to keep smokers 500 feet away from you and from any entrances you walk through. You’ll have a 25% lower risk of plaque rupture -- a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes -- than people who routinely walk through secondhand smoke on the way into and out of buildings. Read more about the dangers of secondhand smoke
Move away from the printer. In one study, researchers found that a third of the office printers they tested spewed out high amounts of particles. Tiny particles not only are a hazard to your lungs, where they can lead to breathing problems, especially in people who have asthma or a weakened immune system, but may also be linked to poor artery health.
Clean yourself. We mean your clothes. If dry cleaning is optional, spare yourself the bill and the chemicals and instead hand wash the items. Dry-cleaning chemicals (trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene, or PERC) have been linked to kidney and nervous system damage as well as cancer. If you must dry clean, remove your clothes from the plastic wrap and let outdoor air circulate around them for 1 hour.
Could the air inside your house be making you sick? Here's how to find out
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