Is Your Home Hazardous To Your Health? How Indoor Air Pollution May Trigger Illness
We tend to think of our homes as our havens–safe places to go in order to retreat from the assault of modern life. For the most part this is true. But there is a hidden danger lurking in the seemingly tranquil and protective confines of our houses, and its something we ought to sit up and notice. That hidden danger is the quality of indoor air.
The act of breathing is so natural we dont even realize were doing it, but what about the air that we take in every time we inhale? When was the last time you stopped to think about the quality of the air you were taking into your lungs, transmitting deep down into the cells of your body?
If you were recently standing on a polluted corner of a busy city sidewalk, well, maybe you did stop to wonder about what sorts of dirt and dust molecules were seeping into your body. But for most of us, especially when were in our own homes, the quality of the air were breathing is not a big consideration–or not even a consideration at all.
The truth of the matter is, the quality of air indoors (even in seemingly clean homes)...