Praise

"Baker has written an illuminating, consumer-oriented book that sifts through some of the latest findings about the dangers of everyday chemicals."
The Washington Post

"Whether we want it or not, a new pollution crisis is looming -- pollution from everyday objects entering our bodies, sometimes in potentially dangerous levels, especially for children. This is the core thesis of a powerful new book..."
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“This is it: The book that finally chronicles the chemical invaders tainting us and the environment—the phthalates and Bisphenol-A (BPA), the flame retardants and non-stick surfaces. And investigative journalist Nena Baker’s book is enough to induce outrage.”
E - The Environmental Magazine

“Nena Baker gets her blood tested and finds out she’s positive for more than three dozen toxic substances – including DDT (banned 36 years ago). This opens her investigation into our country’s long history of better living through chemistry, and the price we’re paying now."
O – The Oprah Magazine

“A pithy call to action replete with frightening stories about what’s hidden in the water we drink, the food we eat, the clothes we wear and the beds we sleep in.”
Kirkus Reviews

"...a chilling look at the questionable safety of nearly everything we store food in, drink from, wear, walk on, rest on and drive."
Publishers Weekly

“We’re our own lab rats, effectively, and the test results coming back today don’t look good. But Baker is neither obsessive nor alarmist. She calmly presents two decades’ worth of critical research into the science and industries behind leading chemical culprits…”
Plenty magazine

“Nena Baker makes an exciting and eye-opening contribution to the growing public awarness of environmental health. The intimate communion between our bodies and the world aroud us is revealed here with uncommon clarity. Be astonished. Send The Body Toxic to everyone you care about.”
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: A Scientists’ Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment.

“This important book will make it impossible to ignore the inconvenient truths about products we use every day. Be prepared to be amazed at what is known and not known about thousands of chemicals that are used in our clothes, our homes, our pizza boxes and just about everything else.”
Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D., President of the National Research Center for Women and Families.