Product Description
Richard Leviton, health journalist and author of “Physician” and “Brain Builders!”, provides 70 essential tools for achieving optimal health by cleaning the poisons ouf of your body and home–and not just the chemicals you keep under your sink! “The Healthy Living Space” is a one-of-a-kind self-care manual containing the first complete detoxification program for the comprehensive living space–not only our bodies but the environment around them. Leviton’s straightf… More >>
The Healthy Living Space: 70 Practical Ways to Detoxify the Body and Home
#1 by Daniel Stih on April 29, 2010 - 9:00 pm
This book has a similar title to Healthy Living Spaces: Top 10 Hazards Affecting Your Health by Daniel Stih.
Get them both.
As one review said of 70 Practical Ways, “This is a huge book, lots of info… Lots to read….”
Healthy Living Spaces: Top 10 Hazards, is an easy read that simplifies things.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by R. Pavusa on April 29, 2010 - 9:53 pm
This is a huge book, lots of info…almost too much. Lots to read…too much. Not an easy or quick read.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Meg on April 29, 2010 - 11:43 pm
I always try to live as healthy, sustainably, organically, etc as possible. But, I also lead a practical life. I gave up toxic cleaners long ago and typically only use baking soda, vinegar and a few essential oils. I make my own detergent (laundry and dishwasher), my own cleaning supplies, shampoo, etc. This book was mostly fluff and it ranged to the deranged. Too new age-y for my taste. I live in the real world and require real solutions, I found this to be an unhelpful resource. (I didn’t just read it, I own it…I’ve read through it multiple times and still find it to be a waste) Much shorter books with much more useful information exist out there…don’t waste your money on this one.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Cassandra Barnes on April 30, 2010 - 1:39 am
Far more common household and personal care products contain toxic substances than many of us realize. Those toxins affect our bodies and may lead to serious illness. At the least, they can reduce the quality of life by making us feel less than vibrant and healthy.
Richard Leviton is a health journalist and author with more than twenty-five years experience. The Healthy Living Space is his eighth book.
In it, he offers “70 practical steps on how to use safe, proven, nontoxic, self-care methods drawn from the fields of natural and alternative medicine.” Leviton not only explains how to detoxify, he also explains why. He also emphasizes that it’s important to detoxify both home and body, as the poisons accumulated in both can make you sick.
He begins with an eye-opening inventory of substances most of us are exposed to every day. He then describes some of the health symptoms people suffer. Many of these symptoms can be vague or subtle, leading health-care professionals to either mis-diagnose or label sufferers as hypochondriacs. Instead they need to be treated as early-warning signals of what may become severe health problems.
Leviton says “the truth is that we are being slowly poisoned, because although the toxins are potent, we are rarely exposed to a lethal or even sub-lethal, but dangerous, dose. We are instead routinely exposed to very small doses of many toxic chemicals, which together overwhelm our body’s natural detoxification system.” He says the key is to recognize that toxicity is occurring so slowly that most of us don’t realize it until too late.
Because few of us can entirely avoid all toxic substances, Leviton explains how we can reduce our exposure, while at the same time strengthening our body’s ability to resist damage from the elements we are exposed to. He includes chapters on emotional and spiritual detoxification as well as extensive information on physical detoxification. The chapters on detoxifying homes describe how to remove common pollutants, as well as utilize the more esoteric techniques like feng shui.
Whether we realize it or not, all of us know what it feels like to live in a toxic environment. The Healthy Living Space provides readers with the practical information and tools they need to create healthy bodies and homes.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Water on April 30, 2010 - 2:52 am
This is, for the most part, a pretty good book that jam packs a myriad of ways that everyone can follow to detoxify and enjoy greater health. However, it seems that, as most health journalists seem to follow this fundamental flaw, they do not give a pure scientific review to every piece of material, and thus, by taking the word of some authority figure, they take the word as truth.
An example of this would be where he suggests a sodium hypochlorite (bleach) produce wash. Firstly, no studies have ever shown that any such wash, whether it being diluted bleach or the like, have been significantly better at removing residues than pure water. Secondly, sodium hypochlorite is a corosive poison that acts as an irritant, can cause respiratory problems, neurotoxicity, cancer, endocrine disruption, and other various issues. What’s even more odd is that he got this piece of advice from a Naturopathic doctor’s book; how on Earth could a Naturopath recommend this?
So with that, while generally has quite a bit of good information, make sure to read the book critically, and question EVERYTHING! Be your own scientist and do your own research!
Rating: 3 / 5