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In Nancy Sokol Green's book, Poisoning Our Children, she cites a fifteen year study in which it was found that women who worked at home had a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who had jobs outside the home. In the study it was concluded that the increased death rate was largely due to daily exposure to hazardous chemicals found in ordinary household products.
According to the EPA, if you buy major brands of household cleaners you have introduced hazardous toxins into your home. These hazardous toxins have created the air inside our homes to be 3 to 70 times more polluted than the air outside our homes. Another startling EPA discovery is that toxic chemicals in household cleaners are 3 times more likely to cause cancer than outside air. In the average home today, more chemicals are found than would have been found in a chemistry lab at the turn of the century. The typical home contains 63 products which contain hazardous chemicals. Doctors and scientists are discovering that there appears to be a correlation between the increased use of household chemicals and the increased incidence of chronic illnesses in children such as cancer, asthma, attention deficit disorder, birth defects, and many other illnesses.
How do you define toxic? A toxic substance can be defined as any substance that is capable of harming a person if it enters the body in a large enough dose. A toxic chemical is any chemical which through its chemical reaction on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitations or permanent harm to humans or animals. There are virtually three ways in which toxins can enter our bodies: by ingesting, by inhaling or by contact with the skin or eyes.
There are many chemicals in everyday household cleaners which pose potentially toxic effects to our bodies.
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