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Environmental Illness: Myth & Reality

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This book has all the makings of a person who has no concept of this illness. A man who hasn't the MEDICAL training to understand the systemic ramifications of toxic chemicals on the human system.

Mr. Staudenmayer is an independent consultant to the insurance industry and is using cigarette science to make up for his lack of knowledge and current research on this illness. More and more physicians are seeing that the human body is not able to process all the chemcials that they are in contact with in a normal day.

If these so called chemicals are safe, which he alludes to in his book, why is the government calling for MAJOR investigations on the safety of over 2000 chemicals by the year 2004?

Mr. Staudenmayer needs to learn to do research not reiterate publications of an industry that sponsors him.

I would NOT recommend this book to anyone, as the facts are not true, his alliance to the chemical industry precludes him from making an unbiased assessment of this illness.

This author wrote a book about something that he was determined to find does not exist except in the minds of those who are afflicted with it. He is right that there are a lot of charletans out there ready and willing to take your money but there is more to multiple chemical sensitivity than a mental predisposition to it. This author is in the dark ages and unfortunately, it will be years before the truth comes out. There is much money invested by the chemical, pesticide and building industries to keep the general public ignorant of the problems with many products and their connection to multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and asthma. If you are looking for a book that will help you with any of these conditions, this is not it.

This book provides an authorative, well researched examination of the phenomena of environmental illness. It is a "must read" for anyone who has any interest in this area.