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	<title>Boomer Living - life solutions for Active Baby Boomers &#187; Greening Your Living Space</title>
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		<title>Be a Green Boomer</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/07/be-a-green-boomer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[baking soda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report I read indicated that the earnings of non-green products nationally is at $12 billion per year compared with similar green products that earn $1 billion per year. At first I thought this a paltry relationship until I realized that a dozen years ago the difference would have been much greater. But “thanks” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Aren’t Hotels, Motels, and B&amp;B’s Greener?</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/06/why-aren%e2%80%99t-hotels-motels-and-bb%e2%80%99s-greener/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/06/why-aren%e2%80%99t-hotels-motels-and-bb%e2%80%99s-greener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[commercial lodgings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[odor removal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
In today’s world, good indoor air quality (IAQ) is a subject that is frequently on the lips of people concerned with greener and cleaner air. Good IAQ is important in lodgings because the livelihood of many tens of thousands depends on repeat business. If the customer is not satisfied, he will not return. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Summer Road Trip: Your Car and Your Health</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/05/the-summer-road-trip-your-car-and-your-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/05/the-summer-road-trip-your-car-and-your-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exhaust fumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas combustion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solvents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volatile liquids]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re planning to travel by car this summer, here are some suggestions to ensure that your car doesn’t affect your health adversely. One important goal is to prevent chemicals from leaking into the vehicle. Plus, a car that runs well is less prone to breakdowns. Now isn’t that a good way to keep your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Pull Out Some Guns and Talk Some Serious Tale</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/04/let%e2%80%99s-pull-out-some-guns-and-talk-some-serious-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/04/let%e2%80%99s-pull-out-some-guns-and-talk-some-serious-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misconceptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic black mold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volatile organic compounds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers seem to have a few misconceptions about what lurks dangerously in indoor air and what is best to clean up those microscopic enemies. Let’s take a look at three issues.
MOLD
This is a big issue nationwide and one surrounded by myth. We can begin with the fact that the hype about “deadly toxic black mold” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weather and Your Health</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/03/the-weather-and-your-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/03/the-weather-and-your-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco Home Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allergens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indoor environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occasional headaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our reaction to our outdoor and indoor environments can be related to the weather of the day. For thousands of years, people have understood that sunlight, cloudiness, stormy conditions, and when they could measure it, falling barometric pressure can affect their health and well-being. Let&#8217;s take a brief look at how this works.
When the barometric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Burning Candles a Health Hazard?</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/02/are-burning-candles-a-health-hazard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/02/are-burning-candles-a-health-hazard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco Home Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asthma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[byproducts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon soot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volatile organic compounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wicks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon soot comes from a variety of combustion sources. These include fireplaces, water heaters, furnaces, pilot lights, smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cooking byproducts, gas dryers, automobile exhaust, and fires in general. Other carbon-related particles come from the burning of plastics, and from roof and street tarring. An additional source of carbon soot—one people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Toxic is Mold?</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/01/how-toxic-is-mold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/01/how-toxic-is-mold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allergic reaction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immune systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of mold toxins (mycotoxins) is becoming a regular feature of mold reports and claims made by lawyers. There is as much fiction as there is fact surrounding these chemical substances.
I have been consulted on a number of lawsuits claiming that fewer than one hundred spores have caused ‘toxic’ injury to a client. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Common are Chemicals and Fragrances at Home?</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/12/how-common-are-chemicals-and-fragrances-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/12/how-common-are-chemicals-and-fragrances-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allergic reactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chlorine bleach]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[laundry detergent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A popular shampoo for women has twenty-two chemicals plus fragrance. Another brand contains as many as forty ingredients. The male version has somewhat fewer ingredients, plus fragrance. The typical bar soap has as many as eighteen ingredients plus fragrance. The fragrances in bar soap and shampoo become volatile (airborne), which means we inhale them in the shower. The effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Should We Retire Tires?</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/11/how-should-we-retire-tires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/11/how-should-we-retire-tires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atmospheric pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backyards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal health standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landfills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The  issue of what to do with discarded used tires has become a world-wide  environmental problem. Only a fraction of them can be  used for asphalt or road construction. They also pose a problem in landfills, since they tend to  “rise.” If left in the open, they collect water and mosquitoes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Holiday Season and Respiratory Health</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/11/the-holiday-season-and-respiratory-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/11/the-holiday-season-and-respiratory-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[allergens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[formaldehyde]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
If you have asthma or other respiratory disorders, severe allergic reactions, or chemical sensitivity, take precautions to protect your health during the holiday seasons.
During the holiday season, we want to look our best. If you have respiratory problems, then you already know that a cosmetology salon is not a place for you. This is especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Skinny on Volatile Organic Compounds</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/11/the-skinny-on-volatile-organic-compounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/11/the-skinny-on-volatile-organic-compounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco Home Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carpeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental protection agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nail polish remover]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.boomer-living.com/?p=4558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are some of the worst toxins that we can come into contact with and they happen to surround us inside and out. A VOC is a compound containing carbon that is found in many household products.Environmental specialists hope to make “VOC” a common household acronym. The reason that these organic compounds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Dust</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/10/dealing-with-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/10/dealing-with-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dust mites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Dust: Just what is this stuff that causes perennial allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma and respiratory allergy?
House dust is a complex mixture composed of pollens and spores; plant hairs and flower parts that are tracked indoors; fragments and feces from insects such as moths, cockroaches, ants, silverfish, spiders, and mites; fibers of material made from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allergy Q &amp; A</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/08/allergy-q-a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/08/allergy-q-a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q.   What is an allergen?
A.   An allergen is a substance that causes the production of a certain class of antibodies that can lead to an allergic reaction. There are a lot of things we know today about what it takes to make an allergen that we didn’t know a few years ago. For example, every single protein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boomers Sleeping With the Window Open</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/06/boomers-sleeping-with-the-window-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/06/boomers-sleeping-with-the-window-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greening Your Living Space]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is It Beneficial?
Weather permitting, many allergic persons sleep with a window open at night for fresh air. They believe that since pollen is released by most trees and many weeds during the day or in the afternoon at latest, there will be few respiratory hazards when they breathe the cooler and fresher nighttime air. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boomers, &#8220;Tis the Pollen and Allergy Season&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/06/boomers-tis-the-pollen-and-allergy-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2009/06/boomers-tis-the-pollen-and-allergy-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Causes and Remedy

Pollen grains are microscopic and are basically spherical in shape. Most of them measure between 20-75 microns in size, about the size of many larger mold spores, and can travel on the wind for miles. In reality, 90 to 99% of them fall on their parent plant or within just a few feet of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Sneller, PhD</title>
		<link>http://www.boomer-living.com/2000/08/mark-sneller/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boomer-living.com/2000/08/mark-sneller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sneller, PhD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Sneller, PhD, Boomer-Living Director,  was born in Venice, California in 1942. From 1965-1967 he served in the Peace Corps in India. Mark Sneller received his Master&#8217;s Degree from California State University at Long Beach, and Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, both in Microbiology/Biochemistry with a specialty in Medical Mycology. He served two [...]]]></description>
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