Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones-- And How to Protect Yourself and Your Family

by Lindsey Berkson and Dr. D. Lindsey Berkson

Book Overview

How Our Environment (Home, Office, Food, Air and Water) Deceives our Hormones- and How to Protect Yourself and Your Family. In a poetic entertaining voice, learn the truth about plastics, pesticides,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809225387
• ISBN13: 9780809225385
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

very useful book

Anyone who is interested in pollution and environmental issues: read it. It is really worth your time and your attention.

Practical and Accessible

I thought this book was interesting and easy to follow. Ms. Berkson, gives us the information and practical advice on how to avoid exposure to these psuedo-hormones that disrupt the body. The print is an easy size to read.

If we only knew...

This is great book full of tons of info on endocrine disruptors, common household items and industrial/commercial as well. It's 400+ pages of invaluable info..eating organic isn't enough! My only question- on page 208 she states the adrenals are below the kidneys, but I'm pretty sure they're on top, hence their alternate name, "suprarenal" glands.

Empower yourself: learn about our surroundings!

This was a hard book to put down. Scientifically oriented, yet written in simple language for all of us "non-scientists" to understand, it's reader friendly. This book applies to our everyday life. We already know many things cause cancer and other diseases, but to finally have a book that tells us what THOSE things are, empowers us to make a change. We've heard our water might be contaminated, well Dr. Berkson will tell you why and what exactly is in it that makes it bad. We've heard to be cautious of dry-cleaning gas off, and she'll cover that, she talks about heating our food in plastic trays and plastic wrap in the microwave, dangers in baby toys, baby foods, our soda cans and cans in general. She talks from a hormone point of view: in parts per billion (which is like a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potatos, her words, not mine) when referring to the sensitivity of these hormones. She warns us of estrogenic invaders, androgenic invaders, hormone blockers and such, that are in our environment in the form of air, food, cleaning products, water pollution and how these interfere with our bodies. The best part: she tells us how to reduce our exposure, what we can do about it by just being aware.

Hormone Deception

I read this book based on the recommendation of another parent in my young daughter's day care center. I found Hormone Deception just brimming with information regarding keeping ourselves and our families healthy. I was especially interested in how hormone disruptors impact our children and truly appreciated all the good advice on how to reduce exposure in the home. I never knew our homes were such potential health hazards! I heartily recommend this book to all moms concerned with keeping their families healthy. Lindsey Berkson has also developed a fantastic website full of related information and links to other bio-environmentally appropriate sites (same name as the book, hormonedeception.com).