The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being Fiction for Adult & Young Adult Deborah MacCallister

Deborah MacCallister

What things are blue

a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life

and the community is growing faster than houses can be built

idol-worship is widely practiced

The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being Fiction for Adult & Young Adult Deborah MacCallisterWe are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by products of modern industry and innovation, that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, and organs as a consequence of womb to tomb exposure to industrial