This Environment Toolkit supports the information and guidance you receive in the Environment Module of the Anticancer Lifestyle Program. The module and the resources included on this page will give you tools you can use to make informed and wise purchasing decisions, in order to reduce your exposure to toxins common to daily living.
Toxic Matters, a program of the University of California, has put out a brochure offering practical recommendations on how to avoid exposure to common substances encountered in everyday life that can …
See here for EWG’s tip sheet on how to minimize exposure to PFAS chemicals.
This review by the National Cancer Institute looks at the cancer risk of cooking meat at high temperatures, and ways to reduce exposure to the chemicals formed when meat is cooked.
A study by Kamerud et al, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, found that stainless steel cookware can be an overlooked source of nickel and chromium, where the contribution is…
The Environmental Working Group released a paper on the toxic legacy of a class of chemicals known as PFCs, or perfluorinated chemicals. The largest manufacturer or PFCs is DuPont.
When Teflon is heated, the fumes generated cause an influenza-like syndrome (polymer fume fever) or cause severe toxic effects such as pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, and death in the exposed individual…
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