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- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 81-87.
- Are you sensitive to low levels of pollutants in the indoor environment? There are many people exhibiting symptoms at much lower pollution levels than the general population. This tells us that a safe level of exposure for one person is not safe for everyone.
- While it is clear that some people inherit a genetic predisposition to asthma, the increases in asthma rates are due to environmental, rather than genetic factors.
- Asthma is a rapidly growing public health problem. Here are recent facts from the CDC and EPA.
- A healthy house needs balanced airflow.
- The harmonious interaction with nature is the guiding principle of the Building Biology approach to healthy home building.
- John Bower\'s advice on building healthy homes.
- California targets devices that emit ozone, a gas known to create and exacerbate respiratory problems.
- Burning candles made from paraffin wax – the most common kind used to infuse rooms with romantic ambiance, warmth, light, and fragrance – is a source of indoor air pollution.
- Tips for selection, location, and use.
- With the ill effects of poor indoor air quality often in the news these days, it pays to
design and build a house that’s healthy from the start.
- In a typical forced-air system with leaky ducts and an inefficient filter, the ducts are usually contaminated with a wide variety of particulates and microorganisms—all directly exposed to the air being breathed by the occupants.
- Biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in blood, urine, and other tissues or fluids, is becoming an increasingly common tool in the study of human exposure to environmental chemicals; the problem is, it\'s hard to connect with health outcomes (abstract only).
- Air filters can definitely improve the air quality in your house, but the big questions are “How much?” and “Is it enough?”
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 30-39.
- The American Lung Association® Health House® provides tips about selection and use of furnace filters to help ensure better indoor air quality.
- If we still rode horses every day, we’d never have a barn attached to the house because the animal odors would be objectionable. Yet houses routinely have an attached garage which contains much more unhealthy odors.
- By incorporating green remodeling practices, homeowners can avoid serious health issues linked to unhealthy indoor air.
- GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) announced in November 2008 the initiation of a comprehensive product emissions standard for indoor products.
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