Healthy Homes Healthy Family

What can be more important than the health of your family? Healthy Home Healthy Family is a compilation of 10 years of research. Within its pages you will discover how your home can affect your family's health and, most importantly, what you can do about it. In the past 20 years childhood allergies and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have increased by 400%, one in four children have asthma, breast cancer has more than doubled since the 1960s, the age of puberty is dramatically declining, sperm count has dropped by 50% and IVF is where you go to have children. Could these conditions be linked to our homes? Building biologists (investigators of the health hazards in and around the built environment) certainly think so!

Includes checklists to assess your home. Australian. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nicole Bijlsma is a woman of passion, and her passion lies in environmental medicine. She first became involved in environmental causes of disease when she began to notice the extent to which the home was causing illness in many of her patients. Nicole is an accomplished naturopath, acupuncturist and building biologist and is the founder of the Australian College of Environmental Studies. Nicole is also a reputable speaker about the built environment and the way in which it influences our health.