Toxic trade-off

Products made with dangerous chemicals are making our lives more convenient but at what cost to our bodies?

By SCOTT STREATER

Star-Telegram Staff Writer

FIRST OF THREE PARTS

Kyle Counts slides in his socks across the new hardwood floors of his North Richland Hills home and jumps into his mom's lap. Kyle, 10, has a blond Labrador named Titan and a handwritten sign on his bedroom door: "Keep Out. No girls allowed."

He also has at least 39 toxic chemicals in his body.