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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't let the cute title fool you. This is an important book.
I purchased SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK from the authors at the Green Living show in Toronto on April 26. I am very glad that I did.
While reading it, I found myself nervously moving off the overstuffed sofa and Scotchgard-saturated dining room chairs while I realized that my now-past love of tuna sushi led to the early symptoms of mercury poisoning.
The chemicals are everywhere, and this book tells you why. It is written in a jolly, anecdotal style that contrasts with the horrific information inside.
Everyone should read this book. It should be required reading for all politicians.
Buy it and read it often. The first chapter will be a shock, the rest will have your jaw dropping.

Well researched and documented book that shows its essentially impossible to dodge the *hundreds* of environmental bullets being shot at consumers on a dialy basis.
I already knew this, but reading it all in one place in this book led me to conclude that if its unavoidable, and that hundreds of chemicals (some of them confirmed toxins, carcinogens and terratogens while the rest are just not yet studied) are already in everyone's bodies, its not much better worrying about what you can't change.
Which is only to say the news this book delivers is rather dire