The danger that lurks where you live, Detoxify your house.
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Stuff that's hanging around in your carpet, in your garage and under the sink can make you older. Clean your house and watch your body's clock turn back:
Clean the toxic dump, a.k.a. your garage. Your walls haven't been avocado for years. So why keep the half-empty paint can? It and other chemicals lingering on those shelves often contain toluene, a potent reproductive toxin. Get them out. Today. Just don't throw them in the trash: Go to Toronto.ca to find the closest Household Hazardous Waste depot.
Leave the bleach behind. The chemicals in chlorine bleach evaporates into the air you breathe and aren't good for you or the environment. Instead, use baking soda to clean sinks and tubs; rely on vinegar in a pump spray bottle for an A-plus job on windows and mirrors.
Open the windows. The inside of a home generally has three to four times the dangerous pollutants and small particles that the outside world does. Open your home to the outside world as frequently as you can during low-traffic times.
Leave your shoes at the door. You can track in toxins such as lawn-care pesticides, which sink into your carpet and can contaminate the kids who crawl on it.
Know what freshness smells like. It's not "vanilla passion," or "new car." It should smell like nothing.
Waiting to exhale: Want to make your environment better for you without having to petition to move the freeway or shut down a coal plant? Use these simple steps to make a big difference:
Enact your own area-wide second-hand smoking ban. Non-smokers who hang out with smokers effectively become smokers themselves, and inhale cigarettes' more than 4,000 chemicals. The best way to purify your environment is to keep smokers 500 feet away from you and from any entrances you walk through. You'll have a 25 per cent lower risk of plaque rupture (a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes) than people who routinely walk through second-hand smoke on the way in and out of buildings.
Clean the toxic dump, a.k.a. your garage. Your walls haven't been avocado for years. So why keep the half-empty paint can? It and other chemicals lingering on those shelves often contain toluene, a potent reproductive toxin. Get them out. Today. Just don't throw them in the trash: Go to Toronto.ca to find the closest Household Hazardous Waste depot.
Leave the bleach behind. The chemicals in chlorine bleach evaporates into the air you breathe and aren't good for you or the environment. Instead, use baking soda to clean sinks and tubs; rely on vinegar in a pump spray bottle for an A-plus job on windows and mirrors.
Open the windows. The inside of a home generally has three to four times the dangerous pollutants and small particles that the outside world does. Open your home to the outside world as frequently as you can during low-traffic times.
Leave your shoes at the door. You can track in toxins such as lawn-care pesticides, which sink into your carpet and can contaminate the kids who crawl on it.
Know what freshness smells like. It's not "vanilla passion," or "new car." It should smell like nothing.
Waiting to exhale: Want to make your environment better for you without having to petition to move the freeway or shut down a coal plant? Use these simple steps to make a big difference:
Enact your own area-wide second-hand smoking ban. Non-smokers who hang out with smokers effectively become smokers themselves, and inhale cigarettes' more than 4,000 chemicals. The best way to purify your environment is to keep smokers 500 feet away from you and from any entrances you walk through. You'll have a 25 per cent lower risk of plaque rupture (a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes) than people who routinely walk through second-hand smoke on the way in and out of buildings.
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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, but they may also be linked to bad artery health.
If dry-cleaning is optional, hand wash those items. Dry-cleaning chemicals 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 one hour.
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