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09/13/12

I am so fed up with advice from people telling women that if they just make the right personal choices at the right time in the right order then there is no problem fitting career, marriage, and kids into our lives. That's a load of crap. If anyone had been able to figure out a way to PLAN her way...

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Kristin Maschka

09/13/12

This story originally appeared in LiveWell Colorado . The ubiquitous American grade school cafeteria is a drab place where limp-looking fruits sweetened in syrups are dispensed from tin cans. microwaved pizza is counted as a “vegetable” for the smattering of tomato paste atop the crust, and rubbery...

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Becky Furuta

Environmental Health

09/13/12

Last month, industry giant Johnson & Johnson made a stunning announcement: it was prepared to eliminate a “most wanted” list of chemicals from its beauty and baby products lines by 2015. Johnson & Johnson plans to phase out preservatives like quanternium-15, which releases formaldehyde, a...

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Margie Kelly

Health Care Food! Blog Carnivals

09/12/12

Like many parents, I’m excited that the 2012-2013 school-year has begun—the kids may already be grumbling about homework, but we parents know that while summertime can be good fun for the family, it can also be exhausting. I’m even more excited that my kids will have access healthier and more...

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Dr. Dwayne C. Proctor

Food!

09/12/12

DALLAS, TX -- Since Hector P. Garcia Middle School joined the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program two years ago, nurse Sandra Coleman has been intent on making impactful changes. She is greatly concerned by the increase in childhood obesity rates and has learned that...

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Kate Uslan

Environmental Health Health Care

09/12/12

The League of Conservation Voters have taken Carly Rae Jepsen's pop gem "Call Me Maybe" and turned it into a fun way to share a powerful message: Pass the Safe Chemicals Act! Beat the midweek slump by clicking the image above and watching " Test it Maybe ?"

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care

09/12/12

Keep the little artists in your life healthy and safe with a few simple art supply swaps and DIY fixes! Smocks: Smocks can help preserve clothes, and reduce skin contact with chemicals from art supplies. Make sure the smock you choose is the safest: CHEJ recommends using fabric smocks to avoid PVC...

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Claire Moshenberg

Paid Family Leave

09/12/12

This post originally appeared in the Global Motherhood section of the Huffington Post. With the continued reverberations of Anne-Marie Slaughter's article "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" on why high-achieving American women still struggle to combine motherhood and work, it's time to look at the...

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Clare Winterton

Podcast

09/11/12

I was driving home from school drop off this am, listening to J Lo sing about wanting to dance again and it hit me. An idea so powerful that it sent chills from the top of my head all the way down to my feet. I saw the divine Goddess gathering all the archetypes, the spirits, the energies, the...

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Lisa Labon

Paid Family Leave

09/10/12

Last week, we announced a $20,000 settlement , the latest in a series of important HUD enforcement actions across the country to address denials of home loans to women because they are pregnant or on maternity leave. We are able to aggressively pursue this type of discrimination because of the help...

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