The Body Toxic: The Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things INACTIVE
Schedule:
October 3, 2009 Saturday 10 a.m. -12 p.m.
Audience:
General Public
Cost:
general $59
Description: The seminar details the health risks posed by these endocrine-disrupting chemicals and provides you with practical and specific means to limit your unwitting exposures to the hazardous chemicals found in everyday things.Investigative journalist Nena Baker, author of The Body Toxic, discusses the environmental concept of “chemical body burden” and details how consumers can protect themselves against health threats posed by chemicals found in everyday items.These include perfluorinated compounds in non-stick cookware and food packaging, phthalates in plastic, flame retardants in furniture, and the now-infamous bisphenol A in polycarbonate bottles and the linings of food and beverage cans.
Course Notes:
Recommended Reading: The Body Toxic by Nena Baker.
This class is held at Bastyr's Kenmore campus, room TBD
Instructor:Nena Baker, award-winning journalist, wrote The Body Toxic after spending more than 20 years in the trenches of journalism covering illegal disposal of toxic chemicals in the jewelry industry and investigating the working conditions at Indonesian shoe factories. Her book, The Body Toxic, has received attention in many major media outlets, including the Washington Post, Plenty Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Newsweek online and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She was a speaker at the “12th Annual Women’s Health and the Environment Conference” in Boston, MA and “The Future of Health” series at Seattle’s Town Hall. Baker is also a former staff writer for the TheArizonaRepublic, The Oregonian and United Press International. She continues to write and work as a licensed private investigator
