The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes

The book ties together existing research into the interaction of chemicals, hormones and electromagnetic fields and provides a method for creating a home environment that supports our protective mechanisms. Worksheets help the average reader to identify the dangers in their homes, and understand how toxins get into our bodies, what they do when they get there, how our bodies try to protect us and how we can optimize that protection.

As health issues like toxic mold, cell phones, cell phone towers and lawn chemicals dominate our headlines, we can’t help but wonder just how many of our symptoms might be related to, or aggravated by, our modern environment. Estimated to be 3 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air, indoor pollution is taking its toll on our health. As we witness increases in the incidence of many chronic diseases and in the number of people becoming hypersensitive to their environment, is it enough to think merely in terms of controlling mold and ventilating?

Indoor pollution isn’t just a mixture of toxins, molds, chemicals and dust, but also electromagnetic fields and other types of radiation. Just like water makes a warm breeze feel chilly, it is the electromagnetic fields that increase our susceptibility to its fellow indoor polluters. Produced by many sources outside our control, electromagnetic fields may seem like something someone else should deal with, but in reality that same radiation is also produced by sources within our control – home appliances and electric systems. As our high tech lifestyle brings ever more appliances into our homes, we surround ourselves with ever more radiation -as invisible as carbon monoxide and just as dangerous. This radiation interferes with the body’s ability to protect itself from chemicals and toxins, leaving that protection overwhelmed. – The result – an array of symptoms that may be as simple as a headache or as severe as those associated with some of medicines cruelest diagnoses.

Just released The Sick House Survival Guide; Simple Steps to Healthier Homes addresses the issue of indoor pollution from the perspective of electromagnetic fields and toxins. Angela Hobbs tells the story of how indoor pollution brought her life to a standstill and how, even in the face of doctors and family members telling her to see a psychiatrist, she persisted and systematically tested factors in her home until she found what was making her sick, she successfully overcame it.

Professional reviews have referred to this book as “Groundbreaking”, “a must have book for any medical practice”, “Will provide hope and a guide for action”, “creative and helpful”, “highly recommended””

Angela Hobbs is a teacher and mother of two. A recovered victim of indoor pollution now passionate about the safety of the home environment, she lives in Calgary, Alberta.