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Vegetarian Baby and Child Magazine
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March 1, 2003
- Author:
- LaLiberte, Carol
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By Philip Landrigan, et al (Rodale Press 2002), 152 pages, $12.95
I will have to admit that on my first glance at the book, Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World, written by two doctors and a public health expert, I felt overwhelmed by its checklists and inspection suggestions to use in our home. Did I really want to know if our home was toxic? Did I want to know if my son's school was a safe place for him to be? I wasn't sure at first, but as is typical for me and other moms I know, my parental guilt got the best of me and I sat down to read this amazingly interesting book.
The environmental checklist at the back of the book proved to be more than just another ...