More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket—autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and even birth defects—it raises serious, difficult questions around how the chemical environment is impacting children’s health.
Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible guide to understanding and identifying the potential sources of harm in a child’s environment. Written by experts in pediatrics and environmental health and formatted in an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format, it offers parents, care providers, and activists a reliable introduction to a hotly debated topic.
As the burdens of environmental toxins and disease continue to defy borders, this book provides a new benchmark to understanding the potential threats in our environment and food. No parent or care provider should be without it.
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“This book is a gift for families everywhere.”
— Jessica Alba
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Philip J. Landrigan is professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine and founding director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital.
Mary M. Landrigan is a health educator who spent twenty-five years at the Westchester County Department of Health.
Karen White has been narrating audiobooks of all genres since 1999. Honored to be included in AudioFile’s Best Voices, she’s also a four-time Audie Finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews.