The Safe Shoppers Bible or Eat This

The Safe Shopper's Bible: A Consumer's Guide to Nontoxic Household Products

Author: David Steinman

Anyone concerned about the health effects of ingredients in the items they buy every day -- from soup to flea powder, mascara, or car wax -- will find The Safe Shopper's Bible indispensable. Finally, here's a complete guide to settle such questions as: Can your hair coloring cause breast cancer? Is this brand of apple juice safe for babies? Will the additives in this salad dressing harm you? Which shampoo won't sting your eyes? The Safe Shopper's Bible rates thousands of household products, personal care products, foods, and beverages. Its extensive charts list products by brand name and rate them each for short-term and long-term health hazards. Readers can find out at a glance which products are more or less likely to provoke allergies or irritation, cause birth defects or cancer, trigger neurological problems, or pose other health hazards. In addition, the charts provide recommendations for the safest foods, toiletries, and everyday household purchases.

What People Are Saying

Gary Null
The Safe Shopper's Bible is the consumer's action handbook for the 90's: comprehensive, well-documented, with all the appropriate warnings—a compendium of reasonable alternatives. A must for all who care about their health. (Gary Null, Ph.D.)

Earl Mindell
The ultimate shopper's guide. A book that should help you get your money's worth every time you shop while safeguarding your family's heath. (Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., Author of the Vitamin Bible)

Jay Gordon
. . . The most important book a shopper will ever own. The Safe Shopper's Bible is a number one recommendation on my reading list for all my patients and their families. Use it! (Jay Gordon, M.D., Medical Correspondent, ABC Television)

Alexander G. Schauss
A long overdue and indispensable reference book important to all who are interested in reducing their risk of exposure to harmful chemicals found in most household products, cosmetics, and food. I cannot think of anyone who would not benefit from this book. (Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D., Executive Director, Citizens for Health)

Interesting book:

Eat This!: 1,001 Things to Eat Before You Diet

Author: Ian Jackman

Ian Jackman believes that life is too short to deny yourself our nation's true culinary treasures. Guided by food experts throughout the land, he travels from east to west—from small town to big city—uncovering local treats, guilty pleasures, and some oddities that no true food lover should miss. From lobster rolls and buffalo meat to banana cream pies and clam stuffies, Jackman finds the sinful temptations your taste buds crave—and he writes about them in a way that's certain to get any confirmed foodie salivating!

• Where you can find the very best burgers in America
• 21 varieties of apples you must try
• Lamb fries—eat or avoid?
• The country's primo pizza parlors
• And more!

Escape the guilt and anxiety propagated by our puritanical, diet-obsessed society and indulge yourself with Eat This!

Publishers Weekly

Jackman's compendium of American foods and foodstuffs is an informational tour-de-force, a guidebook suitable for everyone from the couch potato to the frequent flyer. In the interest of finding out where to get the best, whether it's organic produce or fast food, delivery or fine dining, the author has eaten widely if not always well. Wondered when your favorite ready-to-eat cereal hit the market? What a runza is? Where to go for your last meal on earth? Jackman, who was the managing director of the Modern Library and coauthor of Stickin', includes all the foods and facts, from coast to coast (and including Alaska and Hawaii). The book is organized about as well as something so wide-ranging can be without tilting into a work of reference. The first part, "Eating In," isn't a how-to-eat-better so much as a how-to-eat-the-best-possible. Its second, larger part, "Eating Out," might make one want to cash in an IRA and hit the road for a year or two to eat everything he's listed. Readers will soon find themselves flipping the pages from restaurant to dish, and that's when they'll start fingering their car keys-it's just the thing for the summer travel season. (July)

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