Review: The Healthy Home - Protect Family from Household Dangers

Jun 3, 2011
Paym Bergson

The Healthy Home by Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz - cover courtesy of FSB Associates

This book takes you room by room, uncovering the hidden dangers lurking from common items to your family's health, and finding an appropriate solution.

Just because the government has not banned an item or chemical, does not mean that item or chemical is safe. As pointed out in The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family From Hidden Household Dangers, the government looks first at the economic effect, and then the personal hazard effect, to determine if a product should be deemed unsafe.

Rid Your Home of Unwanted Toxins with Simple Solutions

This is not a book of finger-pointing. Rather, this is a comprehensive guide on how to protect your family and loved ones from the daily barrage of toxicity emanating from all those products that are "good" for you.

This is a "science-made-easy" handbook: all the facts and scientific findings (as they exist) are provided, but in an easy to understand format, and accompanied by specific ways to help rid your house of unwanted and unnecessary toxins. Note that not all of these findings have been scientifically approved, but are based on that rarest of all commodities - common sense and comprehension.

According to the book, toothpaste can be fatal if swallowed, due to its fluoride content. Yet somehow generations of faithful viewers and readers of mass media toothpaste and dental commercials believe we need fluoride in our drinking water and toothpaste to keep our teeth healthy. Problem - fluoride is toxic - and too much will actually harm tooth enamel of children.

Fluoride actually is an industrial waste that has been cleverly repackaged and marketed as "good" for us. Solution? Easy, according to the book - get a toothpaste that does not have fluoride, or use as little as possible - it's the brushing action that does the most good for your teeth, not the paste.

Six Basic Sections with Quizzes and Alternative Solutions

There are six sections to this book, with either two or three chapters and a Simple Solutions Summary for each section. Each section devotes itself to one area of the home.

Section 2 is "The Bedroom" and talks about not just the fabrics and mattress dangers, but how electronics are keeping us awake - that we should use products with a red light, as this is more conducive for melatonin production (essential for sleep) than white or blue light.

There's a checklist and quiz for each area of the home, and at the end of each chapter a "solution quiz" is provided to help you determine how you can make a difference after reading the pertinent information. There are text boxes highlighting important information or providing a simple solution or alternative, as well as amusing pictorials.

Not all the information will be welcome. Do you really know what's in your child's car seat (check out Chapter 12 - some amazing facts)? Or what the real risk of all that high tech around your home is for you and your growing family (Chapter 11)?

100% Proceeds of Book Donated to Effective Organizations Helping Impoverished Children

Written by Dr. Myron Wentz and his son Dave Wentz (CEO of USANA Health Sciences) (and with Donna K. Wallace), this book is a labour of love and wanting a better future for the next generation. In fact, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of The Healthy Home are donated to "effective non-profit organizations that help nourish, educate, and provide medical care for impoverished children." (pg. vii)

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family From Hidden Household Dangers should be read by everyone and anyone concerned about health in the home, and willing to do something about it.

Book courtesy of FSB Associates.

Source

Wentz, D. and Wentz, M. The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family From Hidden Household Dangers . New York, NY USA: Vanguard Press, 2011.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this article is for educational purposes only and should not be used for diagnosis or to guide treatment without the opinion of a health professional. Any reader who is concerned about his or her health should contact a doctor for advice.