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your space can be confusing: Should you use natural cleaning products?
Which plastics are OK? We've boiled it down to the moves that matter
most.
We carefully watch what goes into our mouths and on our
bodies—organic this, petroleum-free that. But when it comes to keeping a
healthy home, knowing what to do isn't so easy. In fact, the average
house may contain as many as 400 chemicals, some of them toxic, many
untested, according to a study in the journal
Environmental Science & Technology.
Short-term contact with one toxin in small amounts isn't going to kill
you. But with so many questionable chemicals swirling around us, "you
definitely want to take simple measures whenever possible to lower your
exposure," says Phil Brown, PhD, director of the Social Science
Environ-mental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University in
Boston.
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And
reducing your contact with chemicals— even a little—can yield clear
benefits. Depending on your sensitivities, you might experience fewer
allergy and asthma symptoms, headaches and skin irritations. Long-term,
Brown says, you may even lower your risk of infertility and cancer.
We know what you're thinking: Where the heck do I start? And how much work is this going to take?
While some people would have you ripping up carpeting and chucking
furniture, we talked to environmental health experts to find low-effort,
high-impact ways to minimize your toxic load and boost your health,
then ranked them from the super easy to the more ambitious. Try a couple
of these, or more, to really clear the air.
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