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What's in This Stuff?: The Essential Guide to What's Really in the Products You Buy in the Supermarket
 
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What's in This Stuff?: The Essential Guide to What's Really in the Products You Buy in the Supermarket (Paperback)

by Pat Thomas (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale (1 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405095490
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405095495
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 261,382 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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We all like to buy things that make our lives easier, keep us healthy and provide a bit of luxury. But, few of us are aware that many of the products we buy every day are polluting our homes and bodies. In this fascinating and sometimes shocking book, Pat Thomas reveals that many widely-used products contain a cocktail of cheap, poorly-tested chemicals that are implicated in long-term health problems. Many of us now scan food labels for unwanted ingredients, yet we unthinkingly use toiletries and other products that contain a multitude of undesirable chemicals, believing that what we put on our bodies is not as influential to health as what we put in them. However, scientists now believe that household and beauty products and everyday foods expose us a witches' brew of chemicals that wage a kind of chemical warfare against our bodies. Wide-ranging and practical, "What's In This Stuff?" examines everything from food additives, beauty products and household cleaners, to pharmaceutical products and garden and pet supplies. It also contains a glossary of chemicals and E numbers, a list of the 50 chemicals you should definitely avoid, and suggests non-toxic alternatives to conventional products.

About the Author
Pat Thomas is a journalist and author in the field of alternative and environmental health. She is the author of a regular column - Behind the Label - in The Ecologist magazine and is contributing editor to the influential newsletter, What Doctors Don't Tell You. She is a regular contributor to newspapers, has written a number of books and appears regularly on TV and radio.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must have for everyone!!!!, 14 Oct 2006
By D. Vant (Essex, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a brilliant book detailing how everyday products that we believe are safe are actually causing us and the environment grave problems. Good ideas for natural products which clean just as well too. Highly recommended to anyone who shops in a supermarket!!!.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Be careful!, 22 Dec 2007
By John (Stockport) - See all my reviews
I picked this book up in the library out of idle interest as a professional chemist. But was so appalled by the content I thought I would comment.

The whole book is based on a misunderstanding. The toxicity of a chemical, naturally derived or synthetic, is dependent on the dose. This is best shown thinking of alcohol .....drinking a litre of vodka in one go has a chance of killing you but drinking one vodka and tonic won't do you any harm. So the toxicity depends upon how much you ingest.

Thus quoting the toxic effects for something at very high exposure is meaningless when considering tiny amounts in perfume, household products or anything else.

An example of this effect is on page 106 in a section on fragrances where it states "Limonene is a carcinogen" but limonene is the substance responsible for the smell of oranges and is present naturally in the rind of oranges and lemons. Does this mean we should be scared of oranges? Clearly not. The carcinogenicity was established by feeding enormous quantities to rats.

Summary: This book is useless and will potentially cause harm to the reader through unnecessary worry and just lead to an increase in the ranks of the worried well.
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