Pollution Can Make You Sick!

This important book shows how pollution can cause health problems in humans. It categorizes the various kinds of pollution in our environment (water, air, land, and global warming) and explains how each can cause both severe and minor health problems, such as breathing problems, rashes, headaches, cancer, lead poisoning, and more. The book includes striking photography of once-beautiful but now destroyed countrysides and waste-choked waterways, while explaining how damage to our environment can result in a lower quality of health. A range of topics is covered, including: how to identify health problems resulting from pollution; how our governments and industries are working toward cleaning up existing pollution and reducing future contamination to the environment; the areas of the world with the highest concentration of pollution and how human life there is impacted; and the facts about indoor air pollution in your home, in your office, or on an airplane. Pollution Can Make You Sick! uses a variety of educator-recommended methods to explain complex subjects clearly: -- Simple and concise explanations make complicated topics easy enough for young readers to understand. -- Color illustrations, photographs, and maps provide a visual image of pollution around the world. -- A real-life story offers courage and hope from a kid who faced an illness caused by pollution. -- Information on the latest research and medical advancements, as well as information on alternative treatments and nonmedical preventative measures, makes the book current. -- Ask the Doctor sections connect a licensed health practitioner with children s real questions about the health problems from pollution. -- Inside/Outside perspectives allow children to understand what s going on inside the body when the outside world is polluted. -- Boxed glossary words on every page define unfamiliar terms for kids. -- Did You Know? boxes round out readers information on the various topics. -- Just the Facts boxes summarize each chapter in easily understood, bite-size packages. -- A Find Out More section directs readers to additional resources found on the Internet. -- A learning map helps readers organize new information.