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The 14 Ways To Better Health
7 Ways to Good Air Quality:
- Vent bathrooms, kitchens, clothes dryer, stove hood and toilets directly outdoors.
- Fix water leaks and clean up within 36 hours after floods
- Ventilate in cold weather
- Dehumidify or air condition in warm weather (RH< 50%)
- Wash sheets weekly in 130°F
- Vacuum mattress, chairs and carpeting
- Replace pillows every five years
- Install solid surface floors in bedrooms
- Use outdoor air supply for fireplace, wood stove
- Use outside vented stove hood when using gas stove
- Use sealed, power vented water heaters and furnaces.
- Eliminate non-vented combustion sources
- Eliminate highly toxic pesticides
- Discard synthetics exposed to pesticides
- Reduce air concentration with carbon/zeolite
- Use least toxic controls - www.biconet.com
- Store toxic/volatile compounds outside living space
- Use safe paints and sealers (No VOCs)
- Open windows to handle high polluting events, such as the use of home cleaning products, hobbies, painting
- Use a 3M Filtrete 1250 or better furnace filter
- Replace filters regularly
- Use hard floor surfaces rather than wall-to-wall carpet
- Use a True HEPA filter equipped vacuum cleaner
- Provide a minimum amount of outside air by"
- Using whole house mechanical ventilation
- Cracking open a few windows
7 Ways to Lower Electromagnetic Radiation::
- Minimize cell phone usage and
- Use airtube hands-free device from:
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- Children are not to use cell phones
- Eliminate wireless internet connection
- Eliminate 2.5 and 5 GHz cordless phone system
- Read Cell Phones article
- Use building materials that reflect EMR
- Distance from cell, radio and TV towers
- Unplug devices within 6 feet of bed
- Move clock away from bed or get a battery clockEliminate electric blanket, pads, and waterbed heaters
- Eliminate extension cords, power strips near bed
- Turn off circuits supplying bedroom
- Unplug Electronics
- Move clock away from bed or get a battery clockUse flat-screened TV and monitor
- Keep distance from sources
- Fix wiring problems causing unequal current flow
- Avoid using plastic floor and wall coverings
- Wear natural fiber clothing
- Avoid metal bedsprings, bed frames, headboards
- Sleep in the N-S direction with head to the north Light
- Increase natural light (20 min outside per day)
- Use UV admitting window glazing (plastic, quartz)Purchase special full spectrum lights (Ott lights).
- Use spectrum corrected fluorescent lighting
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