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The Essential Green You!: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (Green This! Series)
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1 Take Charge of Your Health 1
Connecting the Dots 3
A Time for Precaution, Not Panic 5
2 Eating Green 8
A Story of Three Farms 10
A Clean Food Revolution 12
Activist Spotlight: Center for Science in the Public Interest 14
Beef and Dairy 15
Pork 21
Poultry and Eggs 23
Fish 26
Eco Shopping List 32
A Greener You 39
3 The Power of Produce 40
So Why Aren't We Eating Enough Plants? 42
Eat Your Veggies 101 44
Green Your Plate 47
Eating Green Guide 52
A Greener You 57
4 Out of the Box: Snacks and Processed Foods 60
The "Healthy Junk Food" Trap 62
Food Additives to Avoid 62
Green Your Snacks 71
Eco Shopping List 78
A Greener You 87
5 A Greener Clean: Personal-Care Products 89
Unknown Dangers 90
Taking a Toll 91
Get a Greener Clean 92
Activist Spotlight: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics 93
Ingredients to Avoid 95
What to Buy 112
Eco Shopping List 114
Toxic Tampons? 126
Green Your Personal-Care Paper 128
A Greener You 129
6 Not So Pretty: Makeup 131
Activist Spotlight: Teens for Safe Cosmetics 134
Ingredients to Avoid 135
Eco Shopping List 145
Label Lingo 159
A Greener You 160
7 Green Your Style: Eco Fashion 162
Activist Spotlight: 1% for the Planet 164
Shopping 165
Wearing 170
Discarding 174
Eco Shopping List 177
A Greener You 185
8 Jagged Little Pills: Medication 187
Activist Spotlight: Earth Keepers and Superior Watershed Partnership 188
Lifecycle Phase 1: Biopharming 189
Lifecycle Phase 2: Drug Development 191
Lifecycle Phase 3: Unexpected Impacts 192
Spotlight On: Birth Control 193
Lifecycle Phase 4: Drug Disposal195
Lifecycle Phase 5: Antibiotic Resistance 202
Eco Shopping List 205
A Greener You 206
9 A New Kind of Medicine: Alternative Health 208
Vitamins and Supplements? 208
Eco Issue 1: Contamination 210
Eco Issue 2: The Great Synthetics Debate 213
Eco Issue 3: The FDA 217
Supplement Shopping List 219
Holistic Healthcare 225
A Greener You 229
10 Buy Green, Eat Green, Be Green 231
A Greener You Top Ten 232
Appendix 1 Favorite Vegan Recipes from the Imus Ranch 235
Appendix 2 Buying Green: A Web Resource Guide 246
Overview
In The Essential Green You!, the third volume in the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Deirdre Imus shares tips on how to "green" the way you take care of yourself, whether with the food you eat or the clothes you wear, or the cosmetics, toiletries, and hair products you use every single day. Deirdre provides detailed, practical advice that includes: How to find everything from organic groceries to nontoxic personal care items, Toxic ingredients to avoid in the products you use every day, Where to find clothes that are both environment-friendly and fashionable, Healthy alternatives to commonly used medications, How to make better eating habits a priority and live more consciously. Living organically doesn't