Environmental Wellness
DID YOU KNOW? You might want to...
- Today more than 4 million Americans work in a
home business. The U.S. Department of Labor believes
that half of all Americans will be working from home
by 2025.
- The US Census Bureau says more than 12 BILLION
working hours per year are WASTED by people stuck in
traffic on their way to and from work.
- 45% of workers in North America are deeply
concerned they or their spouses will lose their jobs
before they retire.
- 90% of all personal bankruptcies can be
prevented with $300/month in extra income.
- A home business can put $2,000-$5,000 a year
back in your bank account thanks to business
deductions on your tax return.
- Most senior citizens are living below the
poverty line.
Other Critical Did You Knows...
- 50% of all illness is due to poor indoor air quality.
(Source: 1989 State of Massachusetts Study)
- Just reducing (not eliminating) environmental
carcinogens in the home alone, would save at least
50,000 lives from cancer annually.
(Source: Dr. Lee
Davis, former advisor to the Secretary of Health)
- There has been a 28% increase in childhood cancer
since the addition of pesticides into household
products.
(Source: National Cancer Institute)
- In just one decade, there has been a 42% increase in
asthma (29% for men - 82% for women). The higher rate
for women is believed to be due to women's longer
exposure times to household chemicals.
(Source: Center for Disease Control)
- Three groups of people are primarily affected by
indoor chemical concentrations because they spend more
time indoors and their immune systems are weaker. The
three groups are: Infants and Toddlers, Elderly and
Chronically ill
(Source: 1988 EPA, 5 year study)
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Physical
Create a Safer and Healthy Home
KNOW YOUR A.B.C's.
by Dr. Joyce M. Woods
Dr. Joyce Woods worked as
a medical/surgical nurse, public health nurse, nurse
educator, nursing school administrator, occupational
health consultant. She holds Bachelor of Nursing,
Bachelor of Arts (Specialist), Master of Education
degrees, and has completed her doctoral degree in the
area of “Indoor Air Pollution, and ...it's effect on
your health"
- Begin by thinking of
your home as a toxic waste dump. The average home
today contains 62 toxic chemicals - more than a
chemistry lab at the turn of the century.
- More than 72,000
synthetic chemicals have been produced since WW II.
- Less than 2% of
synthetic chemicals have been tested for toxicity,
mutagenic, carcinogenic, or birth defects.
- The majority of
chemicals have never been tested for long-term
effects.
- An EA survey
concluded that indoor air was 3 to 70 times more
polluted than outdoor air.
- Another EPA study
stated that the toxic chemicals in household
cleaners are 3 times more likely to cause cancer
than outdoor air.
- CMHC reports that
houses today are so energy efficient that "outgassing"
of chemicals has no where to go, so it builds up
inside the home.
- We spend 90% of our
time indoor, and 65% of our time at home. Moms,
infants and the elderly spend 90% of their time in
the home.
- National Cancer
Association released results of a 15 year study
concluding that women who work in the home are at a
54% higher risk of developing cancer than women who
work outside the home.
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Financial
Did you know…
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90% of families who file for
bankruptcy cite 3 reasons:
job loss, divorce or medical problems.
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Bankruptcy experts claim that 50% of
all bankruptcies could be avoided if individuals
were able to add merely $300 per month to their
income.
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Credit card debt for middle-income
families is soaring – up 75% to $5,031 (balance
being carried) between 1989 and 2001.
In a time of increasing job uncertainty,
your own business can offer you a way to earn additional
income without relying on an outside source.
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