Did you know that there are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commercial products? That means that every day, we are bombarded by toxic chemicals and ingredients that could be (or rather are most likely) wreaking havoc on our bodies.
This week on Mamavation TV, we’ll be talking about practical strategies to remove the toxins from our bodies and our world as we chat with the authors of the new book Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World.
What’s Mamavation TV?
Mamavation TV is a weekly show that is hosted by Leah Segedie that is broadcast live on Google+ and YouTube every Monday night at 6pm PST/9pm EST. Each week the show brings a guest expert, panel, or community theme that will encourage or educate in the topics of activism, food, fitness, sustainable living, life detox, and the Mamavation boot camp. Leah also presents the top food news of the week to keep you informed about what’s happening in the fast moving world today.
Our Guests This Week
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ruce Lourie is one of Canada’s leading environmental thinkers and co-author of the bestselling books Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World and Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health. He is President of Ivey Foundation, a private charitable foundation, a Director of the Ontario Power Auth
ority and a Director of the San Francisco-based Consultative Group on Biological Diversity. He is an honorary director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and has founded several non-profit and for-profit organizations in Canada.
Rick Smith is a prominent Canadian author, environmentalist and non-profit leader. Rick is the Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute, a progressive policy and training organization. From 2003 to 2012 Rick was Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada, where he spearheaded the successful effort to get Canada to become the first country in the world to ban the toxic chemical BPA in baby bottles. Along with co-author Bruce Lourie, Rick has written two bestselling books on the health effects of pollution: Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things (2009) and Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World (2014). Rick and Bruce’s books have been featured by the Washington Post, Dr. Oz and Oprah Magazine. When he’s not working in an airport terminal somewhere, Rick lives in Toronto with his wife and their two young sons.
Giveaway
This week we are giving away two copies of Toxin Toxout by Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith.
If you are participating in the live show by commenting on the Google+ event, then you will receive double entries to the giveaway. For other entries, you can check out this Rafflecopter form:
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Very interested in this topic. Hope I can make it tonight.