The Secret Life of Chemicals

Alfred Poulos

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
10 December 2021

Environmental factors; Management of land & natural resources; Waste management; Pollution & threats to the environment; Waste treatment & disposal

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health. The author is a medical scientist, with training in the law.

The book documents current understanding about pesticides in food, the plastics revolution, toxic metals, air, water and electronic waste pollutants, chemical exposure in the workplace, radiation pollutants, chemical exposure and hearing loss, how our bodies deal with chemicals, genetic variability and the risk of disease, the effect of chemicals on genes, mitochondria and the immune system and what we can do about it all.

Industrialisation has resulted in many thousands of chemicals, which are being continuously developed and often escaping from where they are used into our human environment, without us really knowing enough about them. In high dosages or with continuous small dosage, the evidence suggests, that many of them couldinterfere with human health and some of them are known to be doing so. But for the vast majority, we are left wondering whether some could be responsible for some diseases the causes of which are inadequately understood. Every chapter is thoroughly reinforced with several pages of references from the peer-reviewed literature.

By: Alfred Poulos
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 559g
ISBN: 9783030803377
ISBN 10: 3030803376
Pages: 241
Publication Date: 10 December 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2: Pesticides in our food.- Chapter 3. The plastics revolution.- Chapter 4. Toxic metals.- Chapter 5. The Indestructibles.- Chapter 6. Air pollutants.- Chapter 7. Chemicals from paper manufacture and use.- Chapter 8. Chemical exposure in the workplace.- Chapter 9. Fluorocarbons.- Chapter 10: Radiation.- Chapter 11. How do our bodies deal with chemicals?.- Chapter 12: Genetic variability and the risk of disease – the advantages and disadvantages of being different.- Chapter 13. Environmental chemicals and our genes.- Chapter 14. Environmental chemicals and mitochondria.- Chapter 15. Environmental chemicals and our immune system.- Chapter 16: Just because the amounts are small, does it mean they are safe?.- Chapter 17. What can we do for a better future?.

Alfred Poulos has a PhD from London University, a law degree from Adelaide University and a professorship from Adelaide University, for his research into genetic diseases, fats and fat metabolism. He held the position of Chief Medical Scientist at the Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, for many years and has published over 150 papers in the international scientific and medical journals. He is a current member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of Alfred Health in Melbourne, reviewing medical and other health-related research projects. While Professor Poulos’ medical and scientific research has been wide and varied, it has chiefly focused on the role fats play in health and disease. His recent interests are in nutrition, and in the chemical pollutants present in our food, water and the environment. This interest led to his publication of The Silent Threat, a book that provides consumers with information on the source of many of these chemicals aswell as their possible effects on our health.