Comments on: The Most Toxic Places in Your Home (Surprise: Your Lawn Is No. 1)

By: Al Gerhart

Al Gerhart — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:08:47 +0000

Actually the most toxic place in a home us usually the granite countertop. NASA did a study that found 100.000 bacteria per gram of stone (living and reproducing inside the stone). That would put billions of billions of bacteria plus any found on the exterior of the stone, and like the one poster said, you aren’t supposed to use sanitizing products on granite (etches and stains).

Then there is the toxic heavy metal content of granite countertops. Hushed up by the stone industry for many decades except for a few studies on on commericial granite (like in court houses and public buildings).

One sample was tested a few weeks ago using XRF, on a sample of a Bordeaux granite countertop that was removed from a home last year. The machine found 10,260 ppm of Thallium, along with a dozen other heavy metals. Almost all commom granite countertop materials have from five to twenty heavy metals present.

http://forum.solidsurfacealliance.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=177

And researchers are saying that as much as 5% of all granite materials will have serious Radon emissions along with small radiation exposures.

Hands down, the granite countertop is the most toxic product in most homes.

By: Dawhare

Dawhare — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:05:16 +0000

I’m with “Deep”. We should eat more of the contaminated raw meat spinach, tomatoes and peanuts.

By: HCat

HCat — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:12 +0000

Honestly- I dropped a little jaw when she said “knocked up.” but at the same time I was pleased that she said it, as I gagged earlier when she said the P word. Since we’re all being so sensitive, lets please be sensitive to people like me who have a strange but genuine fear of the P word, and many many other terms and realities of the condition.
No, I’m not young and immature. I have a 2 year old… Been through it. Does not make my phobia any less real.
:D
I wish more articles would toss that filthy, medical, fear inducing word.

By: Mo

Mo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:18:14 +0000

The footpads were analyszed on NPR All things considered Aug 18th 2008. The newest craze in consumer health is adhesive pads filled with “detox” herbs that supposedly suck toxins out of the bottom of our feet while we sleep.

An analysis at a California laboratory shows no significant difference between used and unused pads.

Go to NPR and under search put in foot pad analysis and you can listen to the full piece for more information

By: cris

cris — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:34:16 +0000

I bought the toxic cleaning foot pads and they have no order in which to use them , no numbers at all. you can begin with any pad you want .

By: momwhocares

momwhocares — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:21:50 +0000

“knocked-up” was not a good choice of words, but last time I checked, we consider a “house” the dwelling in which we live and a “home” as a more inclusive term relating to the environs in which we live/love/grow, so I cannot find fault with this wording in the article. I’m also annoyed that I even felt the need to comment about a non-issue, but there we are.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:49:31 +0000

Last time I checked my lawn was not in my home, but outside. Maybe it’s just me.

By: dr.cindy

dr.cindy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:33:51 +0000

the toxic artical is way out of line yes there r chamcilas nearly everywere but like if they dont no wat it is wat will they do when there older say whats that??? so yes keep it away but dont let them grow up without it

By: 35 yo mwf

35 yo mwf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:03:16 +0000

I’m reading this article not so much for the germ content or knocked up reference, but for the toxic products we use to clean, which are apparently more harmful than the bacteria themselves. I’m a child of the 70’s and feel the same as the ones of the 50’s and 60’s. However, with young kids now, there seems to be a higher incidence of food and other allergies. Perhaps it’s a product of our “ultra clean” environments that we’ve produced. Or, perhaps it’s a product of the chemicals we expose ourselves to. With a possibility that it’s the latter, that is why I have read more about going green. I don’t want my babies inhaling chlorine fumes. But, I immerse them in the public pools where they smell of chlorine till bath time. Ironic, huh?

I’m all about going green for the environment and for my kids. But, I don’t think it’s about creating sterile environments. We obsess over these things for our children, but forget that the obesity and diabetes rates in children is increasing at an alarming rate. The children in this generation will not live as long as previous ones . They will more likely die of these diseases than of an infection. I think instead of worrying about sterilization of the home for our kids, more emphasis should be put on the risk of poor diets, inactivity, and sexual diseases.

Less “screen time” (computer, TV, and videogames) and more outside time (I guess just avoid the pesticide ridden grass). That will improve quality of life more than anything written in this most toxic article-in my opinion

By: Born in the 60s

Born in the 60s — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:17:31 +0000

G.B, I don’t disagree that new information is to be taken onboard. But what I can’t stand is when people take that pendulum-swing *too far* in the other direction. There is no doubt that on the one end of the spectrum there is “ignorance and arrogance.” But on the other end is the equally redundant obsession with protection from EVERYTHING.

I know people who deprive their children of the simple and very fundamental joys of owning a pet, because they think the very act of introducing one into the home of a toddler will cause lifelong dander allergies. Quite the opposite — getting one’s child around animals, people, and the world in general, is going to BUILD his immune system.

THIS is the kind of ridiculous, over-cooked obsession I’m referring to. Not ignorance about cigarette smoke or proven toxins. But the general paranoia that causes people to be morons in the OTHER direction….it cuts both ways.