Glycol ethers are classified by the EPA as low-level toxins. They are used as solvents for most conventional cleaning products. 15 minutes cleaning your shower exposes you to three times the recommended maximum one-hour dose. If you’re a professional house cleaner, you take in twice the recommended maximum dose of formaldehyde. [Read more…]

If you want to be healthy, move to England. That was the message from a study in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association. The motivation for doing the study as state in the JAMA article was to see whether a society where access to medical care is universal (that is, England) has healthier people than one without universal medical care (that is, the United States). [Read more…]