Food!

May 8, 2013

It’s 7am. I say -- for the eleventh time -- “J., let’s put on your shoes.” At 7:05, I say again, “J., time to put on your shoes.” Next day? Same words, same scene. But, I swear, there’s no repeating necessary when it comes to Elmo. That little red Muppet caught my 17-month-old son’s attention in an...

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Gigi Kellett

Food!

May 8, 2013

Story by Alessandra Gaia Gorini Happy and healthy, this is how I feel and when I sit at my table to eat, I thank my family for teaching me simple behaviors to learn to love myself, starting in the kitchen! Since I was 16, I’ve been cooking. It makes me feel real and it gives me the feeling of being...

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Jamie Oliver

Health Care Food!

May 7, 2013

via The Broad Side Corporations have a very bad habit of telling moms how to be. Or better yet, co-opting some very common “mom” archetypes for their marketing pursuits. For decades, we were told “Choosy Moms Choose Jif.” More recently, “It Moms” were more likely to choose a particular fabric...

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Kimberly Seals Allers

Environmental Health Childcare & Early Education Food!

April 30, 2013

If your pediatrician recommends eating more fruits and vegetables, what they really mean is to eat organic fruits and vegetables. Last fall the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) published a report on pesticides that can be summed up in just one sentence: “Children’s exposures to pesticides...

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Diana Donlon

Food!

April 12, 2013

Eydie Nelson Photography Despite being healthy and fit, my pregnancy was riddled with problems from the very beginning. I had a twin pregnancy, we were expecting identical twin girls. Because of the complications from my pregnancy I spent 10 weeks on bedrest including four weeks in the hospital...

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Amanda Hedin

Food!

April 12, 2013

As a mother, I care deeply about the food that my family eats. And as a lawmaker, I care deeply about New York’s farmers who work tirelessly to supply our country with a wholesome and safe food supply. That’s why, as a member of the Agriculture Committee, I’ve devoted much of my time in the Senate...

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Food!

April 12, 2013

Mountains of hard science demonstrate that it is critical to curb antibiotic overuse on industrial farms, but nothing is quite as convincing as the real-life stories of those living with the consequences of lax regulation. That’s what makes Supermoms Against Superbugs Advocacy Day so important. On...

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Laura Rogers

Food!

April 12, 2013

Dario Sabljak/Shutterstock Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) , one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria, is responsible for more than 250,000 hospitalizations a year in the United States alone. And new, even more deadly versions of staph may be on the way, due to...

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Elizabeth Svoboda

Food!

April 12, 2013

Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents. Wikimedia, Brian Stansberry Soil microbes exposed to antibiotics over a long period evolve the ability to detoxify the compounds, and may...

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Dan Cossins

Food!

April 12, 2013

Consumer’s Union (an arm of Consumer Reports) says that up to 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are administered not to humans, but are given to animals as growth promotants and to prevent disease. But many including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Consumer’s Union say...

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