health
Posted March 21st, 2010 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
UPDATE: If you live near Orange County, there is a rally in front of the Santa Ana district office of Representative Sanchez today (Sunday) at 11 a.m.PST – the hour when the House is scheduled to begin debate.
Campaign Office Location and Number:
604 S. Harbor,
Santa Ana, CA
714.839.4431
Fax: (202) 225-5859
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I like waffles on the weekend, but not [...]
Posted March 11th, 2010 by Katie Bethell
When Ashley’s son started going to child care, he started bringing home more than macaroni art and cute little scribble pictures. He also brought home colds, the flu, pink eye, and a weird unidentifiable rash — all things that meant Ashley needed to miss work to care for him.
“I didn’t realize that child care [...]
Posted March 3rd, 2010 by Janna Waldher
So I have been pondering… which option would you choose?
Enter Parenthood and:
♦ stop working/stay home and recieve a stipend from your employer or a govt. subsidy
♦ continue working and have childcare that is government owned and operated
♦ continue working and have childcare that is privatized, licensed and bonded
♦ mandate that all employers have on-site childcare
♦ [...]
Posted February 22nd, 2010 by Renee Blanchard
The issue of disinfectants is a controversial topic for those trying to eliminate toxic cleaning products from their businesses, homes, and schools. It is a product that is commonly used in places where large amounts of people visit to help lower the risk of spreading bacteria; like bathrooms, office buildings, and theme parks, but often contain harmful chemicals that can impact your respiratory, development, and reproductive systems.
Posted February 19th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
Antibiotics are currently used widely and irresponsibly in raising farm animals. These antibiotics are meant for treating humans and this use in animals entering the food chain breeds antibiotic resistant bacteria that make people sick, and are much harder to recover from. We have been aware for quite sometime that this happens. Fifteen years ago, [...]
Posted February 11th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
Imagine the perfect Valentine’s Day dinner…you and your sweetheart surrounded by hearts, flowers, music and romance at the fanciest restaurant in the city. You’re eating a decadent beef dinner, complete with dessert and wine. It’s the perfect night with the one you love—until you realize you might be paying with your health as well as [...]
Posted February 5th, 2010 by Linda T. Sanchez
The first step to any recovery is admitting there is a problem. Now what are we going to do about it?
In just one year, the National Football League (NFL) went from a complete denial of any link between concussions and long-lasting effects on the brain to a solid “maybe.” It literally took an [...]
Posted February 4th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
There has been a lot of food safety news and food safety talk recently, but very little meaningful action has taken place to protect consumers. Awareness of food safety is important and we appreciate it, but if no action takes place then its value is lost.
Recently, we wrote about the anniversary of the PCA peanut [...]
Posted January 28th, 2010 by Donna Rosenbaum
S.T.O.P.—Safe Tables Our Priority extends our congratulations to Dr. Elisabeth Hagen on her nomination for the position of Undersecretary for Food Safety.
Dr. Hagen has hands on experience working for the United State’s Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in addition to being board-certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. She [...]
Posted January 27th, 2010 by Charlie Pizarro
So it turns out that cadmium (atomic number forty-eight, for those of you scoring at home) is more than a long-forgotten square on the periodic table. It’s also a toxic heavy metal found in our children’s jewelry.
Earlier this month, the Associated Press (AP) revealed that it recently found high levels of cadmium [...]
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