“Watching television can slow the development of children under 3, even when it involves channels aimed specifically at them.” I have always been appalled when seeing children plopped in front of the TV all afternoon, and it looks like I am not alone. The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees with me, as their official policy [...]
Thanks to Patricia over at Green Daily for finding this this morning – pretty interesting and just a tad disconcerting. Out of 324 vitamin products tested, only four did not contain lead, and here are the ten vitamins that could result in the greatest lead exposure for children age 0-6: * Nature’s Plus Animal Parade [...]
Thanks to a vote at the American Medical Association, you personal choice on whether to have a home birth or not might be about to be taken away: “The American Medical Association has agreed to support proposed legislation that, some physicians say, could make make having a planned birth in one’s home difficult, to virtually [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What’s going on with all the cases of autism cropping up and no one seems to know why? It stands to reason it must be something (or some things) environmental, yet every study allegedly turns up no conclusion? What are the possible causes? No doubt about it, autism rates have skyrocketed in the [...]
One of my wife’s favorite blogs (besides this one, which I think she still reads ) is Sew Liberated, written by a Montessori teacher who has been working in Mexico for the past couple of years. In fact, when she told everyone she was leaving and was looking for a replacement, my wife almost convinced [...]
The Bush administration has slashed the proposed public broadcasting budget by 56 percent — putting at risk vital news, educational and cultural programming that millions of Americans say they prefer to commercial media. Congress must stand with the millions of Americans who have acted in the past against such drastic cuts. The Senate is going [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency set a maximum legal level of lead in our air almost 30 years ago, when scientists understood far less about lead than they do today. Since then, the Centers for Disease Control has twice lowered the blood lead level at which medical intervention is recommended, and has now concluded that no [...]
