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Happy weekend! 👋 

Thought for the day: when you clean your teeth, it is the only time that you consciously clean your skeleton :)

In today’s email we cover dietary fiber types, “don’t do this” tips from 15 specialist doctors, and healthy living in a contaminated world.

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Doctors From 15 Specialties Tell The Worst Common Health Mistakes People Make

Whatever your professional background, you probably know many things about it that are very obvious to you, but that most people don’t know. So it is for doctors too; here are the things that doctors from 15 specialties would never do, and thus advise people against doing:

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One-Minute Book Review

Healthy Living in a Contaminated World: How to prevent toxic chemicals from undermining your health – by Dr. Donald Hoernschemeyer

There’s a lot going on here, as this book tackles very many kinds of common contaminants, from waste products and industrial chemicals (such as from fracking), pesticides that are banned in most places but not the US, smog and soot from coal and oil power, mercury and other heavy metals, dioxins, Teflon and its close relatives, phthalates, BPA, and other things again regulated out of use in many countries but not entirely in the US (which bans them only in some things, like baby bottles), drinking water issues of various kinds, and much more.

Indeed, there’s a whole chapter on the US and international regulation of toxic substances; the problem is often that on a political level, the same people who are against nebulous “chemicals” are also against environmentalist regulations that would ban them. This is mostly not a political book though, and rather is chiefly a book of chemistry (the author’s field).

It does also cover the medical maladies associated with various contaminants, while the bulk of the data is on the chemistry side of such things as “elimination times for toxic chemicals”, “amounts of pesticides in fruit and vegetables”, “antibiotics and hormones used in animal agriculture”, and so forth.

The style is dense, and/but it is clear the author has made an effort to not be too dry. Still, this is not a fun read; it’s depressing in content and the style is more suited to academia. There are appendices containing glossaries and acronym tables, but reading front-to-back, there’s a lot that’s not explained so unless you also are a PhD chemist, chances are you’ll be needing to leaf forwards and backwards a lot.

Bottom line: this book is not thrilling, but what you don’t know, can kill you.

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Wishing you a wonderfully restorative weekend,

The 10almonds Team