Click here to buy the Sick House Survival Guide On-line - $15 Shipping (in Canadian funds)
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-- from chemical sensitivities -- than diabetes nowadays, often with little help from the medical profession stuck with outdated research from the 1980s. Sufferers are frequently diagnosed with 'anxiety' or allergies, and returned to the very environments that have made them sick in the first place.
The Sick House Survival Guide tells the story of how indoor pollution from a newly renovated house brought the author's regular, healthy life to a standstill - and how she successfully overcame it. In the first part, Angela Hobbs relates her downward health spiral, followed by that of her children. In desperation, she invented her own systematic search for answers, and eventually triumphed over this invisible monster. Part Two ties together existing research into the interaction of chemicals, hormones, and electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and outlines a series of interactive steps that readers can follow to identify problematic environments and transform their sick house into a healthy home. These include:
- Keeping track of environments that make you sick
- Discovering sanctuary spots where you can sleep
- Isolating foods that burden your system
- Dealing with your tap water
- Purifying your air
- Lifting the burden of synthetic fabrics, and
- Reducing your exposure to EMFs.
Part Three then discusses some of the measures being taken by other countries to mitigate the dangers of chemicals and electromagnetic fields.
Of vital interest to parents of asthmatic children, siblings of chronically fatigued adults, or spouses of chemically sensitive seniors, The Sick House Survival Guide will also be essential reading for victims themselves.
The Sick House Survival Guide is the first book to explore the combination of electricity and chemicals in the home. This pioneering work identifies sources of exposures, their combined impact on the body's systems and simple strategies for reducing their effect.
Book Reviews
“Will Provide Hope and a Guide for Action” David O. Carpenter, M.D. Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment and Professor of Environmental Health and Toxicology at the University at Albany, New York.
|
"Angela Hobbs has written a poignant and highly personal account of her efforts to discover the causes of illnesses that she, and to a lesser degree her family, suffered from because of their home environment. Electrosensitivity, to the degree Mrs. Hobbs exhibited it, is fortunately not common, but her accounts of the multitudes of potentially hazardous exposures we all encounter in our homes is accurate and well presented. The most impressive part of her story is how in the face of physicians and even family telling her to see a psychiatrist she persisted and systematically tested factors in her home environment until she found the things that made her ill. This book was a pleasure to read, and will provide hope and a guide for action for those persons who suffer from unusual sensitivities to various environmental factors."
|
“Groundbreaking…A Must-Have Book” Don Maisch, reviewing for The Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.acnem.org
|
"Today, many medical practitioners recognise the causative role of environmental pollutants with a large number of diseases but have largely been at a loss as how to address the problem with their patients. Angela Hobbs' groundbreaking book not only clearly examines the extent of the problem but gives practical guidance on how to identify and eliminate environmental health hazards in the home. A must-have book for any medical practice as well as the homeowner!
|
“Very Strong Evidence…it is Vital Electromagnetic Fields are Minimised” Professor Neil Cherry, ONZM, Ph.D. Environmental Health, Lincoln University, New Zealand
|
"There is very strong evidence that across the spectrum EMF/EMR is genotoxic and reduces melatonin so it’s vital for your health, your children and grandchildren, that the fields in our homes are minimised."
|
“The Book is Highly Recommended” Leif Sodergren, FEB - Swedish Association for the Electro-sensitive
| The book is very well organized and structured and the writing is very vivid and engaging. Many electrically sensitive have become chemically sensitive and many chemically sensitive have become electrically sensitive - there is a complexity here - and the book deals with both phenomenon in a very creative and helpful way. The book is highly recommended. |