by Alan Bell
APPENDIX C: AN ONLINE RESOURCE GUIDE FOR NONTOXIC LIVING
How to Identify Foods without Pesticides and Poisons
www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php
www.greenamericatoday.org/PDF/TipSheetSafeSeafood.pdf
www.ewg.org/research/childrens-cereals
How to Make Sure Your Water Is Safe
www.ewg.org/tap-water/home
How to Check the Quality of the Air You Breathe
www.scorecard.org
www.epa.gov/airdata
www.epa.gov/myenvironment
www2.epa.gov/rmp/forms/vulnerable-zone-indicator-system
http://www.rtk.net/
www.toxictrends.org
www.toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/
How to Buy Nontoxic Personal Care, Cleaning, and Children’s Products
www.cosmeticsdatabase.com
www.cehn.org
www.ewg.org/2015sunscreen
www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners
www.healthy-legacy.squarespace.com/plastics-tips
www.npainfo.org
How to Test Your Home for Mold, Asbestos, Carbon Monoxide, Lead, and Other Toxins
www.prolabinc.com/products.asp
How to Select a Low-Radiation Cell Phone
www.s21.com/sar.htm
How to Avoid Harmful Chemicals
www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/index.html
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/index.asp
To download a digital version of this list, visit alanbell.me/resources.
APPENDIX D: MY FOUNDATION’S FOUNDING SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Iris Bell, MD, PhD, University of Arizona. Psychiatrist and university professor emeritus researching complementary and alternative medicine. She was chosen as one of the best doctors in the Pacific region of the United States. Dr. Bell has served on the faculties at Harvard Medical School; University of California, San Francisco; and the University of Arizona. She is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition and practices homeopathy and alternative medicine.
Eula Bingham, PhD, University of Cincinnati. Former scientific and policy advisor for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Labor, the National Academy of Sciences’ Lead in Paint Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency. President Jimmy Carter appointed her director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and she served through his administration. She later served as vice president and university dean for graduate studies and research at the University of Cincinnati and as a distinguished professor of environmental health.
David Christiani, MD, Harvard University. Professor of occupational medicine and epidemiology in the school’s Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology whose research focuses on the interaction between human genes and our environment. He conducts studies worldwide on how genetic and acquired susceptibility to pulmonary and cardiovascular disease is linked to environmental exposures to toxins that include exposure to chemicals, indoor combustion products, the particles produced by coal-burning power plants, and bacteria in cotton.
Joan Cranmer, PhD, University of Arkansas. Neurotoxicologist and professor of pediatrics and pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. Her research focuses on infant and child neurotoxicity, children’s environmental health, and developmental neurotoxicology. Dr. Cranmer has more than seventy-four publications in peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, and edited books and has participated on many national and international advisory boards and expert committees, including a member of the National Institute of Environmental Health Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Egyptian Center for Toxicological Research.
Bernard Goldstein, MD, Rutgers University. Professor emeritus of environmental and occupational health and former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. He is a physician, board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and toxicology. Dr Goldstein is the author of over 150 publications in the peer-reviewed literature, as well as numerous reviews of environmental health studies. He is a member of the National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine and of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. His experience includes service as assistant administrator for Research and Development of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the founding director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a joint program involving the University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers University Medical School.
John Groopman, PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Associate director of cancer prevention and control at the Johns Hopkins Cancer Center and professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is recognized for linking environmental exposure to liver cancer and conducted studies that demonstrated how mold-induced DNA damage can be reduced by antioxidant supplementation.
David Hoel, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina. Professor in the Department of Medicine and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on numerous governmental and National Academy committees, including the Environmental Health Coalition, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences. His research has focused on linking low-dose radiation exposures to cancer.
Kaye Kilburn, MD, University of Southern California. Former director of Cardiopulmonary Research at Washington University School of Medicine, chief of Medical Services at a North Carolina Veterans Administration Hospital, and professor of Community Medicine in the Environmental Sciences Lab at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His studies have led to over 235 publications, of which 43 papers focused on neurobehavioral toxicology, and a book, Chemical Brain Injury, which explores the link between exposure to environmental toxins and brain injury.
Nancy Klimas, MD, Nova Southeastern University. Director, Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine; director, Clinical Immunology Research, Miami Veterans Administration; and professor emeritus, University of Miami, School of Medicine. Dr. Klimas conducts research on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Gulf War illness (GWI), fibromyalgia, and other neuroimmune disorders. She is immediate past president of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalopathy, and has advised three secretaries of Health and Human Services.
Hillel Koren, PhD. Dr. Koren’s research focuses on the immunological mechanisms and environmental factors involved in asthma and other allergic diseases, and on the interconnection between human health and global climate change. He was the senior science advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory studying links between environmental exposure and asthma. He is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Research Center for Environmental Health in Germany. With more than two hundred publications and contributions to four textbooks, Dr. Koren is a widely published author in the areas of immunology, environmental pulmonary cell biology, and molecular biology.
Philip Landrigan, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. Dean for Global Health and chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Landrigan is also the director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center. A pediatrician, epidemiologist, and international leader in public health and preventive medicine, he is known for his many decades of work in protecting children against environmental threats to health, most notably lead and pesticides. His pioneering research on low-level lead toxicity helped to persuade the US government to mandate removal of lead from gasoline and paint, actions that have produced a 90 percent decline in incidence of childhood lead poisoning over the past twenty-five years, and he has been a leader in developing the National Children’s Study, the largest study of children’s health and the environment ever launched in the United States. The author of more than five hundred scientific papers and five books, he has al
so been centrally involved in the medical and epidemiologic victim studies from the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.
John McLachlan, PhD, Tulane University. As scientific director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, he discovered how environmental chemicals alter fetal development. At Tulane, he established a program on the Environment and Women’s Health and formed the nation’s first Center in Environmental Astrobiology. His scientific findings have been published in over 150 journal articles, fifty book chapters, and five edited books. His work has focused on how exposure to environmental chemicals adversely affect affects human health including breast and endometrial cancers.
Herbert Needleman, MD, University of Pittsburgh. Pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher, and professor. Dr. Needleman studies neurodevelopmental damage caused by lead poisoning. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the founder of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. He has campaigned vigorously to educate parents and government panels about the dangers of lead poisoning, and played a key role in launching environmental safety measures that have reduced average blood lead levels by an estimated 78 percent between 1976 and 1991.
David Ozonoff, MD, Boston University. Chair of the Department of Environmental Health studying the health effects of toxic exposures. He is coeditor-in-chief of the online Environmental Health Journal, serves on several editorial journal boards, and is a fellow of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
John Peters, MD, University of Southern California. Dr. Peters focuses on the short- and long-term effects of air pollutants on children’s health. Peters has published more than 150 research papers studying the health effects of air pollution, magnetic fields, asbestos, vinyl chloride, and other chemicals on human health.
J. Routt Reigart II, MD, Medical University of South Carolina. Professor emeritus and former director of the Division of General Pediatrics. His research interests include children’s environmental health issues, general pediatrics, and toxicology (lead poisoning prevention and education). He was the chair of the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and a member of EPA and the US Department of Agriculture Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee. Dr. Reigart is an active participant in the Prioritization Committee for the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children program.
Glenn Sipes, PhD, University of Arizona. Head of the Department of Pharmacology in the University of Arizona College of Medicine and founding director of the Center for Toxicology and the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center. Dr. Sipes has also served as president of the Society of Toxicology, the International Union of Toxicology, and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, has edited scientific journals, and was an advisor to the World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture.