Central Vacuum Systems: The Easy, Healthy Solution

Title:Central Vacuum Systems: The Easy, Healthy SolutionWord Count:387Summary:According to the American Lung Association (ALA), 42.3 million Americans are affected byasthma and/or hay fever, generally triggered by allergies or airborne allergens such as petdander, mold, pollen and dust mites. As a result, it is important to do everything possible toimprove the air inside homes, ventilation and cleanliness being two major factors that affectindoor air quality.Keywords:Central Vacuum Systems: The Easy, Healthy SolutionArticle Body:According to the American Lung Association (ALA), 42.3 million Americans are affected byasthma and/or hay fever, generally triggered by allergies or airborne allergens such as petdander, mold, pollen and dust mites. As a result, it is important to do everything possible toimprove the air we breathe inside our homes, ventilation and cleanliness being two majorfactors that affect indoor air quality.According to the Carpet & Rug Institute (CRI), high-performance vacuum cleaners have asignificant impact on improved indoor air quality. Vacuum cleaners also play a significant rolein the life of your carpet, with certain vacuums removing and containing soil more effectivelythan others, helping the carpet last longer. CRI recognizes these vacuums with its Green Label

Testing Program.The Green Label Testing Program focuses on three key performance factors. First, vacuumsmust remove a set quantity of soil from carpet in four passes. Second, and perhaps mostimportant to indoor air quality, is the vacuum's ability to contain dust. Vacuums must notrelease more than 100 micrograms of dust particles per cubic meter of air, taking into accountdust released by the brush rolls and through the filtration bag. Lastly, the CRI tests the carpetappearance retention, as vacuums should minimally affect the appearance of a carpet over thecourse of a year.Central vacuum systems capture dust, dirt and allergens without stirring up microscopicparticles and re-emitting them into interior spaces. \"Central vacuums are up to five times morepowerful than normal portable vacuums and do not recirculate any particles back into thehome,\" says Christian Reick-Mitrisin of Nutone.NuTone Central Vacuum Systems are Green Label-certified and contain High-EfficiencyParticulate Air (HEPA) filters, meaning dust and bacteria are trapped better than ever before.Two different systems are available-bagged and cyclonic versions. The cyclonic versioncontains an easy-to-clean filter, which can be easily accessed through the door panel.The bagged version contains the easy-on/easy-off snap-release bag change mechanism thatcloses the opening immediately upon removal, so what goes in stays in.\"NuTone Central Vacuum Systems are made of lightweight polymer designed to resist rust anddents,\" says Reick-Mitrisin. \"The vacuum canisters also provide quiet cleaning because thepower units contain an internal sound suppression system and are typically located in the garage,basement or utility room and not in the general living area.\"Title:Health & Safety - Ignoring It Will Close Your BusinessWord Count:341Summary:Occupational health and safety and public health and safety are two areas that have becomeincreasingly important, but also easier to manage, in recent years. There has been an increase inawareness of Health and Safety concerns in the general public and employees.The increasingly litigious cultural atmosphere has brought health and safety to the forefront ofmost public and business decisions. This has been paralleled, however, by a growth in theavailability of health a...Keywords:

Article Body:Occupational health and safety and public health and safety are two areas that have becomeincreasingly important, but also easier to manage, in recent years. There has been an increase inawareness of Health and Safety concerns in the general public and employees.The increasingly litigious cultural atmosphere has brought health and safety to the forefront ofmost public and business decisions. This has been paralleled, however, by a growth in theavailability of health and safety professionals, and also in better and more detailed health andsafety information on the Internet. More help is available at http://www.health-safety-now.info.Occupational health and safety measures can take many forms - from the management ofphysical risk in your place of work, to employee health and safety concerns about noise orstress levels.The important thing for businesses is to have a plan for every possible health and safetysituation that could arise, or that all could be feasibly predicted anyway.Depending on your business area, there may be an organization that monitors the health andsafety in your workplace - this particularly applies to dangerous locations such as railways,nuclear installations and mines, and to workplaces involved with vulnerable people, such asnursery schools, care homes and hospitals.The occupational health and safety of these businesses will probably be monitored and checkedregularly by an independent organization.If such a group does not cover your place of work, it is recommended that you invest in aprofessional health and safety inspection. Alternatively you could appoint a permanent group ofoccupational health and safety experts, depending on the size and needs of your enterprise.Public health and safety may be monitored by a government agency, or independent health andsafety professionals may be employed to judge the health and safety of a prospective project orplace of work.Public health and safety should take into account both the health and safety of the public sectoremployees and of members of the general population whose health and safety may be affectedby a project.Title:Stop Smoking, Regain Your HealthWord Count:528Summary:The article discusses different factors of smokingthat could have disadvantages in healthy living. It

relates smoking costs, health risks, and socialacceptance. By quitting smoking, one could lessentheir health risks, of other people, as well as saveon costs and be accepted.Keywords:stop smokingArticle Body:No one would say that it is easy to stop smoking. Butsince millions of people have successfully quitsmoking, it simply means that kicking the tobaccohabit is not impossible. Quitting smoking does notonly make one feel better, it also entails makingdrastic yet positive changes in one's life. Puttingan end to one's nicotine addiction will enable aperson to have better health, gain savings by nolonger spending on cigarettes, enhance socialacceptance, and set a good example for the youngergeneration to follow.Taking care of one's health is the most obvious andequally the most important reason why a person shouldstop smoking. Almost everyone knows that smoking cancause lung cancer, but only a few know that smokingalso increases the risk for other types of cancer,lung diseases, heart attacks, stroke, and peripheralvascular disease. The said habit also causes

premature wrinkling of the skin, bad breath, yellowfingernails, pregnancy problems (miscarriage or lowbirth weight), and higher risks of heart attacks,stroke, and clot formation for women who uses oralcontraceptives. It really does not matter how longone smoked, but as long as one stops smoking, thiswill definitely bring benefits to one's health. Infact, those who stopped smoking before 35 avoid 90percent of the health risks associated with nicotineand tobacco.The next thing to consider would be the actualfinancial cost of smoking. Smoking is expensive, andthe economic cost of smoking is estimated to be about$4,000 a year for an average smoker. Figure out howmuch a person spends on smoking by multiplying howmuch money is spent for tobacco each day by 365. Nowmultiply this by the number of years that a smokerused tobacco. This equals to how much one spends onsmoking. Another way would be multiplying the amountspent per year by 10. This will be the cost if onekeeps smoking for another ten years. Think of otherways to spend that kind of money. This computationdoes not even include higher costs of health and lifeinsurance, and the medical costs due totobacco-related conditions.Smoking is less socially acceptable now that it was

in the past. In fact, employers nowadays prefer tohire nonsmokers. Some workplaces even restrictsmoking. The reason for this is probably because paststudies reveal that smoking employees cost businessesmore because they are \"out sick\" more frequently.Smoking in a building also increases the maintenancecosts of keeping cleanliness and odors at anacceptable level. Landlords, too, may choose not torent to smokers since maintenance costs and insurancerates may rise when smokers occupy buildings. Friendsmay ask you not to smoke in their houses or cars.Public buildings, concerts, and even sporting eventsare largely smoke-free. And more and more communitiesare restricting smoking in all public places,including restaurants and bars. In fact, finding aplace to smoke nowadays can be quite a hassle. It canbe frustrating but that's only because smoking is aninconvenient habit. It is really much easier to stopsmoking than try to change or adapt thecircumstances, things, and people around you toaccept smoking.