Getting Healthy in Toxic Times is the first book to connect the health of the planet with our own wellbeing, and asks the questions that few doctors do – how can we protect ourselves from pollution, chemicals and toxins within the environment. If you visit a GP with asthma, very few will look at traffic pollution or toxic indoor paints etc, but often they are the cause of disease.
For recipes, read food safety for people and pets. For green spaces, use no-dig gardening and fruit protection bags (over netting, which can trap birds and wildlife). Learn how to create gardens safe for pets (use humane slug/snail deterrents). Avoid facing indoor foliage to outdoor gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.
From chemicals in our water to toxins in the soil (and therefore our food), and even electro-magnetic energy emanating from constant use of mobile phones and laptops, these can affect everything from allergies to infertility to heart disease, neurological disorders and cancer. Once we know this, we can take positive steps to avoid them.
There is now evidence that many cases of Parkinson’s disease are due to pesticides from garden chemicals (one of concern is banned in the UK yet still exported to other countries that have not banned it – bringing profits for UK business but not good for worldwide populations where people suffer with this incurable disease).
This book will help you put the good stuff in, and take the bad stuff out, and empower you to look after your own health, and that of the planet. Includes case studies throughout plus tips to restore health, after being exposed to toxins.
About the Author
Dr Jenny Goodman qualified at Leeds University School of Medicine and worked as a junior doctor, then qualified with the British Society for Ecological Medicine, a group of practitioners that wish to help people gain better health through changes in diet and nutrition and avoiding exposure to toxins. She has worked in this form of medicine for 22 years.
