6. Refill your own non-plastic water bottle instead of using toxic plastic water bottles. While it's good for your health to carry your own water and drink it throughout day, if it's in a clear polycarbonate plastic bottle, it is leaching a toxic substance into your water--even if bottle is sitting on table at room temperature. Bisphenol-A. BPA is a potent hormone disruptor that can impair reproductive organs and have adverse effects on breast tissue and prostate development. Drink from a glass bottle or carry an aluminum or steel bottle, available online.

7. Avoid toxic pesticides by making dinner using fresh, organically-grown produce. Most food sold in supermarkets are sprayed heavily with pesticides, many of which cause cancer. Find out where to buy pesticide-free organically grown food in your community, go there and purchase what looks good and is in season. One taste and you’ll go back for more. A great variety of organically-grown food can also be ordered on-line.

8. Wash away petrochemical perfumes and take a botanical bath. Many commercial bath products contain detergents and artificial fragrances that can be irritating to sensitive areas. You can have a luxurious relaxing bath by adding natural substances to warm bathwater, such as fragrant dried or fresh herbs (try lavender, rosemary, or peppermint), a quart of buttermilk, or 1 cup Epsom salts. For bubbles, use a natural or organic soap, available in natural food stores and online.

9. Get some color in your life without toxic solvents by choosing colorful water-based pens and markers. Check through your pens and markers and throw away any with "permanent" ink. They contain very toxic volatile solvents such as toluene and xylene. Every office discount warehouse and art supply store I have been to carries water-based pens and markers in every size and color.

10. Clear air with a couple of houseplants. In addition to being beautiful to look at, houseplants also freshen air by absorbing carbon dioxide we exhale and releasing oxygen that is vital for us to breathe. Some plants, such as popular spider plant, also remove some air pollutants.

To learn more about toxic products hidden in your home and safer alternatives, buy and read Home Safe Home: Creating a Healthy Home Environment by Reducing Exposure to Toxic Household Products (http://www.dld123.com/homesafehome.html). To find nontoxic products online, visit Debra's List at http://www.debraslist.com.

There is indeed a great reason for hope among cancer sufferers for recovery in this day and age and numerous alternatives to traditional treatments which DO NOT have dangerous side-effects! These alternative treatments have been proven to reverse, and in many cases, completely reverse cancer’s destruction within body. Before committing to some option that has only a 4% success rate, don’t you owe it to yourself to at least look at other options available to you?