Note: This post is originally from our partner website, Healthascope. It can also be read in its entirety here.

How do we protect ourselves from air? We’re breathing it in constantly! Beside that, what’s the problem? If I’m not on a street corner or next to a smoker, the only thing I smell is the aroma of dinner on the stove.

But if there’s toxic air on the street corner (you know, gasoline and diesel exhaust) and there are factories and smokestacks belching their toxic brew into the air, you can bet that at the very least, low concentrations are making it into your home. Depending upon where you live, you potentially have high concentrations getting into your living space.

Why does it matter? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):

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Okay, enough cheese. We’re writing about simple ways you can help yourself to survive through a damaged environment, both inside and outside of the home. This is all about how to protect you! There are pollutants high and wide that, given some basic advice, we can all attempt to break contact with, help our bodies to deal better with, and give ourselves a fighting shot at avoiding diseases to which environmental toxins contribute.

What it really comes down to is that we all have the responsibility to improve our envirohuman impact but the environment is still a long way from being, “clean.” We all have to be concerned with protecting ourselves from the damaging elements we may encounter.