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• Carbon Monoxide

  Conquering Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

  Death and illness from carbon monoxide poisoning are preventable.
• Safety

  Cures for the Accident-Prone Home

  Home Safety includes preventing unintentional injuries, which include poisoning, fires and burns, choking, drowning, suffocation, strangulation, firearms and falls, and they are all preventable.
• Lead

  Quick Lead Basics

  Brush up on the health hazards of household lead and what to do about it.
• Allergies

  Allergies

  There are a number of actions you can take for relief.
• Allergies

  Decorating for Allergies

  Choose easy-to-clean items for a comfortable, low-allergen home.
• Radon

  Nonsmokers Can Get Preventable Lung Cancer — at Home?

  You can\'t see it. You can\'t smell it. But you can take steps against radon in your home, starting with an inexpensive test.
• Cabinets

  Constructing Cabinets

  Your choice of cabinet materials may affect your breathing space for years to come.
• Laminate Countertops

  Pros and Cons of Plastic Laminate Countertops

  Or, how to reduce the cons to installing healthier laminate countertops.
• Acrylic Countertops

  Acrylic Countertops

  Navigate the options for cleaner air.
• Green Building

  Man-Made Wood Products

  It is not so much the wood as the adhesives in these products that release a known toxin.
• Lead Paint

  Testing for Lead Paint

  Before disturbing your existing wall paint, find out whether it contains lead, and if so, what to do about it.
• Workshop

  The Home Workshop

  Where to put and how to stock a safe work area.
• Healthy Home

  A Model Healthy House - HHI Founding Project

  This article describes the design, construction and guiding philosophy of the first healthy house built by John Bower (founder of the original Healthy House Institute) in the early 1990s. Although times have changed and technology has advanced, Bower's founding principles - "eliminate, separate, ventilate" - pictured by the three green vertical bars of the current HHI logo, still apply.

Information provided by The Healthy House Institute is designed to support, not to replace the relationship between patient/physician or other qualified healthcare provider.

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