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The Toxic Sandbox: The Truth About Environmental Toxins and Our Children's Health

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Am I Missing Something? Why aren't the issues in this book addressed or discussed more? This book discusses the most dangerous toxins that your children (and you) will encounter on a daily basis. Some of the points I had heard before, but others just floored me. Every parent needs to be aware of what is in the environment that will adversely effect the health of their children. This book is easy to read and can be used or read as a reference book. My wife and I went through our plastics (for food and drink especially) this week and tossed quite a bit. We plan to continue to weed out anything dangerous (including toxins that my wife would pass on to an unborn child). This is definitely worth the read.

This is a real document of its time. It's hard to imagine in this day and age that no one has come up with something like this before. Here is a real mother who has done her homework, talked to The Right People and given it to us straight.

The author has sifted through all the recent research on environmental toxins to provide parents with the relevant stuff (what do I really need to be concerned about, and what can I do about it?) in a concise, readable format. Highly recommended reading for anyone with kids.

I just finished "The Toxic Sandbox" yesterday and thought it was great. It was actually quite readable considering the subject matter. Libby MCDonald manages to be very informative while not hitting readers over the head with too much information. What she ends up doing is telling stories and then tells the story behind the story... well done.

Who says childhood has to be boring? Not with all those cute rubber duckies and colorful plastic blocks; too bad many of them are poisoning our kids. What an eye-opener this book is. (And on the subject of eyes, I've got to say, I never really thought much about what my teenager was applying to her face in the name of beauty.) Reading McDonald's personal stories interwoven with her well-researched facts brought it all home. This book will leave the reader clearer, but also with a sense of hope that something can actually be done - as opposed to, say, escaping to the farthest corner of the Earth, which isn't usually an option.

There are many people that say lot of bad things about this book, I respect their opinion but if you are going to say something I hope you say something smart with a base to debate. I love the book and I have recommended it to any one. I have learned so much.

The book it's an excellent source of information for does all ready pregnant and does who are trying to conceive. Why be naïve when there is so much information to prevent all kinds of disease and complications for your child. Why some people knowing that a pain with voc it's not good for your baby's health....They keep using it? Hello! Exactly.... this book reminds us to be more careful to be conscious about our actions and decisions regarding our care and our baby care. We should be grateful that theses ladies took their time to investigate and provide us with this information that some of us didn't knew. It is ok to keep making mistake if we where on 1980 to 1999, but where not, and every single days there is more stuff that are changing to prevent health problems. Let's be more careful and conscious with our choices.

Reading this book kind of made me want to put my kids in a plastic bubble. But then I started to worry that the plastic bubble might contain BPA, and I scrapped that idea.

This book explores environmental toxins putting our kids at risk -- lead, mercury, plastics and air pollution, among others. I was most interested in the chapter on plastic contaminents (BPA and others) and this book does contain a good amount of information on those specific toxins. So, I now feel more informed and have something new to worry about.

The book is a quick read, and a good resource for parents concerned about environmental health hazards and looking for strategies to protect their kids. The list of questions to ask your child's pediatrician/dentist was a nice addition.