Journalist NENA BAKER discusses the hazardous chemicals increasingly present in everyday products--pizza boxes, butcher paper, microwave popcorn bags, dental floss, tin cans, clothing, upholstery, you name it.
She focuses on a group of chemicals known as "endocrine disrupters" or "hormone mimics." These chemicals are doing serious harm to our bodies--and government agencies lack the power to regulate their use. There's some hope, though.
Bakers talk is based on her book, The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Healthand Well-Being (http://www.thebodytoxic.com/). She spoke in Seattle on April 1, 2010. I have slightly condensed the talk, which was originally broadcast on Mike McCormicks "Mind Over Matters" in Seattle (www.talkingsticktv.org). The uncut version is here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44608 . Thanks to Mike.
New World Notes previously broadcast this installment, as #148, in January 2011.
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "inflexible deadlines") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
You can download this installment of New World Notes also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The Program Information page at archive.org is here: https://archive.org/details/NewWorldNotes369-TheBodyToxic . To download from that page, right-click on one of the two links ("39.9 MB" or "13.3 MB") under the column heading "VBR MP3." The page also has players for online listening.
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
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