For a healthy home

Food

Fruits and vegetables, fish, meat and animal products may contain pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, mercury, PCBs, dioxins, BPA and DDT.

• Dangers
  These substances disrupt the endocrine, neurological and reproductive systems. They can be carcinogenic, harmful to the soil and pollute groundwater.
• What can I do to protect myself from carcinogenic chemical compounds?
  You can buy locally grown organic products, plant a vegetable garden, opt for grass-fed fish and livestock as well as organic meat and poultry.

Many other industrial and chemically toxic compounds that are potentially carcinogenic are found everywhere in our homes: polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene, polyurethane, heavy metals, to name a few. The same advice holds true: limit the quantity of these compounds in your home.