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Publisher
Cinemo Libre Studio
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A close examination into what some consider to be a "hoax": aspartame toxicity. This documentary attempts to look at what is definitively known about aspartame and discovers that the label "hoax" in this case is a dangerous misconception. This controversial documentary is sure to open eyes to the possible dangers of what lurks in our food.
Author
Publisher
YinYang Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x., 270 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and nutrition. They embarked on five years of rigorous research. What they found changed their lives — and the lives of thousands of their readers. In Perfect Health Diet, the Jaminets explain in layman’s terms how anyone can regain health and lose weight by optimizing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger. The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xii, 532 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive guide to creating a toxin-free, environmentally friendly homewith an eye toward bringing health and harmony to those living there and those living on the earth as a whole Recent studies show that nearly one-third of American adults, or 63 million consumers, care deeply about health and environmental issues and the realization of human potential through a unity of mind, body, and spirit. Appealing directly to the Lifestyles of Health...
6) Chemerical
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 67
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chemerical explores the life cycle of everyday household cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity. The film is at once humorous, as we watch the Goode family try to turn a new leaf by creating and living in a toxic free home, and informative, as director Andrew Nisker works with many experts to give audiences the tools and inspiration to live toxic-free. Chemerical tackles "the...
7) Minamata
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life" Magazine editor Ralph Graves, Smith is finally convinced...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal. The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the miscreant...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young...
10) Blue vinyl
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blue vinyl: When director Judith Helfand's parents install vinyl siding on their house, she sets out with filmmaking partner Daniel B. Gold to find out the truth about the toxic manufacture and corporate corruption behind a seemingly innocuous plastic product. From vinyl sided homes in suburban Long Island, to hushed cancer outbreaks in Louisiana and Venice, Italy, this vibrant exposé tracts vinyl's shocking history with willful irony and a healthy...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxi, 412 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies...
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