How many chemicals do you think are in your body and do you really want to know?
I’m not sure I’d want to know. Sometimes I feel that ignorance is bliss.
Nena Baker obviously doesn’t live by this philosophy. She got her blood tested and found out she’s positive for more than three dozen substances—including DDT which was supposedly banned over 35 years ago.
Nena wrote about why she got herself tested and what she did with this information in her book “The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being.” I haven’t had a chance to read her book, but apparently it’s an eye opening account of why we need to question the safety of everything we use to store food in, drink from, walk on, wear, drive, and breathe.
Have a listen to what Nina has to say at this Authors@Google talk. It’s quite interesting scary…
