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- Non Toxic Living - Offers tips and advice for living a natural, energy efficient and nontoxic lifestyle.
- Sustainable Healthy Living - Contains information about non-toxic lifestyles through fitness, food and healing.
- Symbio's Non-Toxic Pest Management Index - Offers non-toxic alternatives to pest control.
- Green Living Magazine - A comprehensive mix of articles on green shopping topics that concern everyone who wants to live a healther, more environmentally conscious lifestyle.
- Toxic Metals.info - Offers education about toxic metals that are being used in dentistry today. Includes case histories and resources.
- Environmental Health Information Service (EHIS): Metal Toxicity - Links to current information on metal toxicity.
- Au Naturelle - Shares a natural lifestyle forum offering, non-toxic lifestyle alternatives: household products, natural cosmetics, heart healthy vitamins, and diet supplements for resistance to toxic cancer-causing substances.
- Toxic Home - Details a toxic episode this homeowner experienced. Provides links and information to natural alternatives and new toxin articles with updates.
- B Toxic Free - Presents lifestyle changes that can help reduce disease and illness by healthy eating habits and lowering the exposure to toxins.
- Talk International.com - Online resource for Dental Amalgam, including news and articles dealing with detoxification and mercury toxicity.
Wikipedia Articles
- Toxic waste - Toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It usually is the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use, agriculture, the military, medical facilities, radioactive sources, and light industry, such as dry cleaning establishments.
- Biosurfactant - Biosurfactants are surface-active substances synthesised by living cells. They have the properties of reducing surface tension, stabilising emulsions, promoting foaming and are generally non-toxic and biodegradable.
- Oligodynamic effect - The oligodynamic effect (Greek oligos = few, dynamis = force) was discovered in 1893 by the Swiss KW Nägeli as a toxic effect of metal-ions on living cells, algae, moulds, spores, fungi, virus, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, even in relatively low concentrations. This antimicrobial effect is shown by ions of:
- Chronic toxicity - Chronic toxicity is a property of a substance that has toxic effects on a living organism, when that organism is exposed to the substance continuously or repeatedly. Compared with acute toxicity.
- Staphylococcus aureus - Staphylococcus aureus , literally "Golden Cluster Seed" and also known as golden staph, is the most common cause of staph infections. It is a spherical bacterium, frequently living on the skin or in the nose of a person, that can cause a range of illnesses from minor skin infections, such as pimples, impetigo, boils, cellulitis and abscesses, to life-threatening diseases, such as pneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, Toxic shock syndrome (TSS), and septicemia.