ARE YOUR HOUSEHOLD CLEANING PRODUCTS CREATING A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT IN YOUR HOME?

Written by Patty Avey


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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 outsiderepparttar home. Inrepparttar 115218 study it was concluded thatrepparttar 115219 increased death rate was largely due to daily exposure to hazardous chemicals found in ordinary household products.

According torepparttar 115220 EPA, if you buy major brands of household cleaners you have introduced hazardous toxins into your home. These hazardous toxins have createdrepparttar 115221 air inside our homes to be 3 to 70 times more polluted thanrepparttar 115222 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. Inrepparttar 115223 average home today, more chemicals are found than would have been found in a chemistry lab atrepparttar 115224 turn ofrepparttar 115225 century. The typical home contains 63 products which contain hazardous chemicals. Doctors and scientists are discovering that there appears to be a correlation betweenrepparttar 115226 increased use of household chemicals andrepparttar 115227 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 entersrepparttar 115228 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 withrepparttar 115229 skin or eyes.

There are many chemicals in everyday household cleaners which pose potentially toxic effects to our bodies. Common everyday ammonia is considered a poison which can cause rashes, redness and chemical burns. The fumes from ammonia are very irritating torepparttar 115230 lungs and can be especially harmful to anyone suffering from respiratory illnesses. Ammonia can also cause grave eye damage.

Chlorine bleach which is sodium hypochlorite is an irritant and can cause skin, eye and respiratory tract irritation. NEVER mix bleach with acids such as vinegar, ammonia, toilet bowl cleaners, drain cleaners or chlorinated scouring powder as it can produce deadly chloramines gas which may result inrepparttar 115231 burning of mucous membranes and chemical pneumonia.

Imitation of Life (and How to Get Real)

Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach and Consultant


“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises fromrepparttar imitation of those whom we cannot resemble,” wrote Samuel Johnson. I would amend this to: “Almost all human misery and wasted living comes fromrepparttar 115217 imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

As a coach, I see it daily. I work with people in transitions, some of whom are well beyond burnout and driven to coaching in their healthy desire for relief fromrepparttar 115218 stress and misery of imitating that which they can’t resemble.

The realization that they can no longer tolerate doing something they weren’t meant to be doing, no matter whatrepparttar 115219 salary, comes in various forms – physical aches and pains, migraines, depression, fatigue, irritability, flash anger, or numbness,repparttar 115220 ability to feel nothing at all. Emotions out-of-control isrepparttar 115221 general theme – at one extreme, shutting down and feeling no pleasure because allrepparttar 115222 energy goes to managingrepparttar 115223 pain; or over-reacting, living in anger, hostility and mood swings which drive away loved ones, compromise work, and bring exhaustion in another way. Sometimesrepparttar 115224 physical symptoms arerepparttar 115225 driving point. Other times an external crisis precipitatesrepparttar 115226 epiphany –repparttar 115227 death of a parent, or getting fired. Other times its depression and imploding relationships.

Depression is epidemic and immune deficiency conditions are proliferating. Stress and anger are known to compromiserepparttar 115228 immune system, which is our health. Chronic stress and chronic depression are associated with changes inrepparttar 115229 hippocampus (an area ofrepparttar 115230 brain), and problems with learning and memory.

The effects are long-reaching, including putting you at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. According to a recent report inrepparttar 115231 journal Neurology on Alzheimer’s Disease, subjects classified as highly prone to stress were shown to have twicerepparttar 115232 risk of developing Alzheimer’s as those inrepparttar 115233 lower stress category. Furthermore, there was a greater than tenfold increase in episodic memory decline (remembering events, not facts). The study found that chronic psychological distress is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease.”

One ofrepparttar 115234 greatest stresses we can put ourselves under is pretending to be what we’re not, of asking ourselves to do things that are foreign to us. Buckingham and Clifton, authors of “Now, Discover Your Strengths,” based on research on over 2,000,000 subjects, concluded that working within areas of your innate talents not only allows you to achieve near-excellence most ofrepparttar 115235 time, but to do this without draining yourself. If this sounds like a dream to you, why not make it a reality? To work with yourself instead of against yourself allows you to be productive and also generate energy, not deplete it.

The StrengthsFinder® profile, fromrepparttar 115236 Gallup organization, shows you what your 5 top innate talents are, in descending order, using both familiar and unique terms, such as Deliberativeness, Focus, Analytical, WOO (Winning Others Over), Harmony, Connectedness and Strategic. There are 34 strengths, andrepparttar 115237 chances of any two people havingrepparttar 115238 same 5 inrepparttar 115239 same order are millions to one. Yes, you are unique. Yes, you may not be taking advantage of this.

As an example, people with Strategic are natural-born strategists, a talent whichrepparttar 115240 authors say cannot be learned. Consideringrepparttar 115241 need in organizations these days for long-term strategy, you would think this profile would be routinely administered, wouldn’t you, in employee selection? Why force someone without this talent to attemptrepparttar 115242 impossible, when there are people who do this as naturally as they draw a breath?

In another example, people with Deliberativeness are naturals for due diligence, research, coaching and law. They are naturally cautious, keen on ferreting out loopholes, and prone to deliberate carefully before making decisions or taking action. If you have Deliberativeness and are working in a field requiring fast action and forcing you to make shoot-from-the-hip decisions, you’re a sea creature trying to live onrepparttar 115243 land.

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