Fatal Conveniences: The Toxic Products and Harmful Habits That Are Making You Sickand the Simple Changes That Will Save Your Health

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The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and life-enhancing.

Fatal conveniences are the toxic products we routinely use and the unhealthy things we do that our culture and corporations have made us believe are safe and necessary for living well and efficiently. These thingsfrom deodorant, cosmetics, dental floss, and sunscreen to laundry detergent, air fresheners, carpets, and crayons to candles, tea bags, cell phones, and chewing gumare ubiquitous in daily life . . . and they are wreaking havoc on our health and our planet. The environmental toxins found in these products create a cascade of problems, including chemical sensitivities, auto-immune issues, obesity, chronic health diseases, and more.

Darin Olien has spent most of his adult life obsessively researching these conveniences and in this book, he raises our awareness of their dangers, demolishes the myth that if its easy, it must also be good, and gives us alternative choices to take control of our lives and our health. Fatal Conveniences offers a fresh perspective and achievable, small tweaks that will lead to big, life-enhancing changes.

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Bending the planet to our will comes at a costa debt to human and environmental well-being weve packaged, sold, and blindly incurred that has now come due. Darin Oliens Fatal Conveniences provides a stunning and urgent reconciliation of the many invisible ways the convenience of modern products we trustour food, our homes, our clothingare in truth shockingly toxic, buffered with pragmatic solutions for a healthier future. An evidence-based primer for better living, this book is a must-read reality check, offering a better way forward for all. Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra "Darins eye-opening book is a necessary education for us all to understand the invisible challenges of how our health is being harmed by modern toxic exposures. Alongside the shocking discoveries presented herein, Darin shares very pragmatic solutions leading to a healthier and better way forward for us and our environment." Max Lugavere, New York Times bestselling author of Genius Foods and host of the Genius Life podcast "Fatal Conveniencesis a book the world has been waiting for, a compendium of what we dont know, werent told, and are lied to about: the presence of synthetic toxins that are deceptively but deliberatively added to our food, cosmetics, clothing, and homes. Darins research is revelatory and shocking, a what-to-do-manual for living purely, cleanly, and simply." Paul Hawken, Executive Director, Project Regeneration

Author Bio

Darin Olien is an exotic superfood hunter, supplement formulator, environmental activist, and widely recognized authority on nutrition and natural health. He partnered with the fitness company Beachbody to formulate the wildly popular whole-food supplement Shakeology and the comprehensive plant-based Ultimate Reset 21-day detoxification program. He also sits on the board of Raincatcher.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing clean drinking water. He holds a BA in exercise physiology/nutrition and an MA in psychology, and lives in Malibu, California.