Of course you don’t serve your kids Twinkies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for breakfast. But many of us are serving our kids just as much – or more – sugar every day in the good ol’ American cereal bowl. How much? See how bad it really is in Environmental Working Group’s new report, Sugar in [...]
With Sonya Lunder There may be 12 days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah, but EWG has boiled the shopping hullabaloo down to the number five: five ways to detox your holiday shopping. And, no, our list does not include a golden ring. (We’re not keen on jewelry for kids.) Finding great gifts for [...]
We parents give a lot of orders. “Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don’t pull the cat’s tail!” But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, it’s Sandra Steingraber who gives the orders – to us parents. But she has just one, albeit a big [...]
I’m a vegetarian. But my husband’s not. And – go figure – my kids aren’t either. Which is exactly why I care about the meat I buy. Yes, I buy meat. I’d rather not, but if it’s coming into the house – and into my kids’ bodies – then I need to know exactly what [...]
Ann Cooper isn’t called “The Renegade Lunch Lady” for nothing. She calls it like it is, and she can because she’s been there — in the kitchens, in the schools, with the kids. Chef Ann, as she’s called, was Nutrition Services Director for the Berkeley school district in California from 2005 to 2009. She’s now [...]
By Lisa Frack with Rebecca Sutton, PhD, Environmental Working Group Truth is, when my husband and I chose a childcare facility for our kids (way back in 2003), the question of environmental health didn’t even cross our minds. Why not? Because what mattered more, at the time, was its affordability, its proximity to my office [...]
It wasn’t that long ago that my frustration over bad public policies was mostly heard by my husband (patient soul) and the 4 walls of my kitchen. Then I started blogging about it, any my audience expanded (and I felt better!). It never really crossed my mind back then that I’d wind up testifying in [...]
When I read that there are 100s of toxic chemicals in human cord blood (including BPA), I feel a little sick. And when I read that there are 100s of toxic chemicals in pregnant women’s blood, I feel a little sicker. Especially since many of the chemicals identified in the cord blood samples cause irreversible [...]
My usual approach to grassroots activism is to focus on making laws better: paid family leave, toxics, breastfeeding, you get the picture. Pretty much the usual issues that rightfully rile up today’s moms in the U.S. (that Moms Rising has thankfully plunked in the center of the proverbial “kitchen table”). But this time, I’m redirecting [...]
I’d love to feed my kids knowing that the food and water I give them are safe. You? But I can’t. Why? Because the safeguards in this country are so weak that there’s rocket fuel in infant formula. I mean, how bad can it get?
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