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The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes [Paperback]

Angela Hobbs (Author)
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May 1, 2003

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chemical sensitivities—than diabetes nowadays, often with little help from the medical profession stuck with outdated research from the 1980s.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
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.

Angela Hobbs is a teacher and mother of two. A recovered victim of indoor pollution now passionate about the safety of the home environment, she lives in Calgary, Alberta.


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About the Author

Angela Hobbs is a teacher and mother of two. A recovered victim of indoor pollution now passionate about the safety of the home environment, she lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: New Society Publishers (May 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0865714851
  • ISBN-13: 978-0865714854
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary! Highly recommended., October 11, 2003
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Daniel Chiras (Author of The Solar House, Superbia!, and EcoKids, Evergreen, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes (Paperback)
The Sick House Survival Guide is one of the most compelling and informative books I've read on healthy homes in a long, long time, and I've read quite a few over the past few years as I researched this topic for my books on natural building and passive solar heating and cooling.

Unlike the other books on the healthy homes, The Sick House Survival Guide delivers a much more personal and understandable message. In this extraordinary book, the author skillfully weaves a powerful (and frightening) tale of her own exhausting battle to discover the underlying causes of her mysterious and debilitating symptoms contracted soon after she and her family moved into a newly refinished home in Canada. Against all odds, including dozens of narrowly trained doctors and a highly skeptical husband, the author uncovers a multiplicity of causes for her illness: a toxic mix of chemicals outgassed by many components of her home such as newly refinished hardwood floors and electromagnetic fields given off by fluorescent lights, clocks, appliances, computers, and a host of other electronic devices.

If you are experiencing unusual symptoms that you suspect are related to your home or work environment, read this book. If you know someone who complains of symptoms that doctors can't attribute to anything -- except perhaps psychiatric problems -- you owe it to your friend or relative to put this book in his or her hands. This book could help them discover the causes of their own illnesses and eliminate them from their homes -- regaining their health.

If you're just interested in learning about the many ways our homes can poison us, you need to read this book. In fact, it should be required reading for every physician in the country!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars For organizing balance and living healthier, January 13, 2004
This review is from: The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes (Paperback)
The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps To Healthier Homes by Angela Hobbs (herself a recovered victim of indoor pollution and a home environment safety activist) is an informed and informative guideline to various aspects of a typical American home that can aggravate environmentally hypersensitive individuals -- estimated to be more than 15% of all North Americans. Recommending ways to avoid, circumvent, or otherwise reduce specific aspects of modern technology that can have a negative impact upon individual health (such as too much exposure to EMFs, impure air or tap water, irritant-causing synthetic fabrics, etc.), The Sick House Survival Guide is an extremely practical, "user friendly" work for organizing balance and living healthier without necessarily retreating to a technology-bereft lifestyle.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read. Should be called "how I survived chemical & electrical sensitivity", April 1, 2008
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One of the most compelling introductions I'm aware of on chemical and electromagnetic sensitivity. Some of the advice on how improve a house (she says to disconnect the smoke alarms, by why not just use the battery operated kind?) probably should be changed, but until a more definitive guide comes out, this is a great place to start.
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