Even if you never parachute, scuba-dive or play in the Glasgow pub league, you could be living dangerously

Pat Thomas is an expert in a field of health that no company or corporate wants to talk about and that most of the rest of us would prefer not to hear about. Is modern life, so dependent as it is on an explosion of technologies to which we’ve never had time to adapt, disrupting our hormones and slowly killing us. Offices and buildings, pesticides and pollutants, toxins and pylons are all put under Thomas's microscope, the case against them made on the basis of evidence and with none of the new age flannel that sometimes floats around this debate. Compelling  stuff.

The book concludes with a nice little A-Z section of how to cope with these dangers. But it literally is an A-Z, ie. there are 26 plus things that you need to do. Most of us will be lucky if we remember five of them. A strong case for recognising that these things will never be changed solely through individual action. They need to be placed explicitly on the political agenda (which is just what those corporates are afraid of). A great book which might go someway towards doing that.

Pat Thomas, Living Dangerously - Are Everyday Toxins Making You Sick? (Newleaf) ISBN: 0717136000