The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes

By Angela Hobbs

Curtains that make you sick? Electricity as a pollutant? More people suffer from indoor pollution--from chemical sensitivities--than diabetes nowadays, often with little help from the medical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865714851
• ISBN13: 9780865714854
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

What a story

This story really brings home the knowledge that our homes are not necessarily havens! Some great advice on how to overcome some of the challenges of indoor pollution. On the whole a great book.

Great read. Should be called "how I survived chemical & electrical sensitivity"

One of the most compelling introductions I'm aware of on chemical and electromagnetic sensitivity. Some of the advice on how improve a house (she says to disconnect the smoke alarms, by why not just use the battery operated kind?) probably should be changed, but until a more definitive guide comes out, this is a great place to start.

SIMPLE AND INFORMATIVE

The autor is very clear, gives a good plan on how to came closer to a problem of dificult diagnosis. Lots of references and helpful information. A very good first book about enviromental caused health problems.

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.

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!