Slow Death by Rubber Duck

According to Lisa Bonos a Washington Post reviewer A Slow Death By a Rubber Duck is a hard hitting story is hard to grasp but makes you believe the future will be safer and you can make more informed choices. Also that the government will put some regulations on the chemicals that are around us.The book shows that these every day chemicals lead to many dieseases.

According to the readers at Goodreads.com they all recommend this book. They say it has a lot of helpful information, and very entertaining. It has harsh evidence but the message that is getting across is very strong. The readers said it was a good way to get informed of the chemicals around us. The book was given an overall 3.8 rating.

After starting to read this book it is surprising how many chemicals are in our everyday lives and most of them being hard to avoid. I just started reading the book but the points the author makes are very vaild and the book is interesting. It makes you wonder what is worth putting these chemicals in your body, is having good smelling shampoo and air fresheners  around your house and maybe get some sort of diesease from it or is it worth to have a fresh smelling house by opening the windows and enviornmentally friendly shampoo and having less chance for a diesease. This story has really started to make me wonder.

Slow Death By Rubber Duck #2

I read chapter six and chapter nine. Chapter two talked about children are being exposed to the same chemicals as adults but in different ways. Children always have more contact with the environment and that makes them more exposed to chemicals. Chapter nine Detox talked about how chemical exposures used to be mostly confined to factory workers would worked low levels of industrialization, but now it has grown to everybody is affected by it every day, in almost everything we do.


"45% of all soaps on the market contained some type of antibacterial agent. Triclosan was the most common agent found" 
This shocked me because as humans we haven't always been clean. Our ancestors didn't bathe as much as we do now so they weren't exposed to as many chemicals. If we stopped using less chemical-filled products I think we would have longer lives because of what our ancestors died from we have cures for but nobody has any cures for the chemicals. If we could stop using them we would have less health problems and maybe live longer lives. Also if our whole culture was less worried about germs and bathing then it would not be as weird for people to stop showering as much.

My overall reaction of this book was it was boring. But I think it had good information I just was not interested in the topic at all. But it did make me more aware of the chemicals around me and to buy less smelly stuff and more environmentally friendly stuff. .