National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

21 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now

Matt and Mabel, Pete, Rob, Leo, Vi and Jill - We Call it Environmental Health, but...
It's Your Scene, Teen	So... Read the label, Mabel... Turn it down then, Townsend... Check the CO, Leo... Grow some plants, Vance... Put drugs high, Vi... It's your cat, Matt... Don't drink from the lake, Blake... Take a pill, Jill... Wash your hands, Hans... Use latex, if you play, Tex... and Don't spill, Bill...

Your environment is your health. For example: Purifying city water supplies is a major reason that you probably are going to live twice as long as someone born a century ago.

You've got a personal environment, too.

To help keep yourself fit and healthy, as well as live longer, you've got to take care of that personal environment as well as the rain forests, whales and ozone layer. So some of us at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have put together a checklist of things you can do:

1. Read the label, Mabel
2. Turn it down then, Townsend
3. Leo, check for CO
4. Grow some plants, Vance
5. Put drugs high, Vi
6. Know the dangers of your job, Rob
7. Your cold may be your cat, Matt
8. Don't drink from the lake, Blake
9. Get rid of the lead, Ted
10. Hey, Ron, what about radon?
11. Beware of the heat, Pete
12. Mind the ozone, Tyrone
13. Don't overfill, Bill
14. Wash your hands, Hans
15. Watch the drift, Cliff
16. Eat a good diet, Wyatt
17. And take a vitamin pill, Jill
18. Put the belt on, Shelton
19. Use latex if you play, Tex
20. Don't puff or chew, Stu
21. Watch the burn, Fern