Pure Prevention: Resources and Links

Resources and Links

TreeHugger’s Go Green Guides are an essential resource for greening every aspect of your life—from the foods you eat to the cleaning products you use.
For a conscious consumer checklist, check out The Center for a New American Dream's Guide to Environmentally Preferable Purchasing.
Visit the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Guide to Green Living for environmentally friendly ideas for living pure.
The National Zoo has practical tips on how to green your life, from safer dry cleaning to which foods to avoid.
Care2 shares the latest green living news daily.

NRDC provides a guide to tissue and toilet paper products for the home.
The Chlorine Free Products Association offers a guide to chlorine free office paper.
Learn more about green cleaning products from the EPA.
Download the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Smart Plastics Guide.
Dr Janet Gray is with Vassar College’s Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer – a program dedicated to examining the evidence around the environmental factors in breast cancer and presenting practical suggestions for lessening our exposures.
See Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between plastics and breast cancer.

Food News puts out a useful organic produce guide.
To learn more about healthier meat and dairy, visit the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Smart Meat and Dairy Guide.
Tamiya King writes about preventing cancer through diet and nutrition in her 2005 article by the same name.
Jessica Fraser exposes the risks associated with eating red meat.
See Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between pesticides and breast cancer.

Visit Skin Deep, an online database of over 25,000 cosmetics and personal care products cross-referenced against 50 toxicity databases. Look up the safety scores of products you use.
Download “Unmasked: 10 Ugly Truths Behind the Myth of Cosmetic Safety,” a brochure from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, at www.breastcancerfund.org/unmasked.
See Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between cosmetics and breast cancer.

Wendy Bumgardner writes about the benefits of a brisk walk.
Read more about how walking can reduce your risk of breast cancer in this American Cancer Society article.