Perfect for a trip to grandma’s house, this natural, reusable basket is brimming with everything you need for an afternoon with baby. Dr. Greene’s best-selling “Feeding Baby Green” book helps you prepare your house for baby’s special nutrition...
Pop quiz: what is the most important factor determining whether a woman has a cesarean or not? How healthy she is? How big her baby is? Whether she has pregnancy complications? These all seem like reasonable answers, but the research tells a...
If you had your baby in a United States hospital in 2005:
There's a 1 in 3 chance you had cesarean surgery.
There's less than a 2% chance that you experienced a package of evidence-based care practices known to ease labor and prevent...
I worked hard for the ten days before the party and five days following. I got the last of the dishes stored back in the garage exactly one week later. We bought two sets of “service for eight” white dishes a few years ago to cover...
The newly cleaned front patio must have looked like a blank canvas to my little artist who created quite a dirt and water masterpiece the morning of the party. Oh well, nothing a hose down couldn't fix. I only hoped I wouldn't get arrested by the...
I’m lying in bed the morning of the dinner marshalling my forces for what is sure to be a very long day when my five year old daughter comes bounding into the bedroom and says, “Mommy, there are ants in the kitchen.” I lie there...
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Although it was just a couple of weeks ago when my doctor looked me in the eye and called me cured of the breast cancer that had almost ended my life, I've actually considered myself free from cancer for quite some time. When I was diagnosed, Alan...
I started off with one of the strongest Western medicine available, and at the end of my treatment, I was in a very vulnerable position. The cancer was gone, but the first year after treatment has the highest risk of recurrence. And cancer that...
When I started treatment, my goal was to make sure the medical staff thought of me as the perfect patient. I was going to do exactly what they said to do and follow all the rules - and I was going to be happy about it.
The first six or seven months...
I tried for 15 years to get pregnant, and when I was told that we should prepare to welcome a baby boy, I was determined to do everything right. I was prepared for the challenges of breastfeeding, but it turns out that my son and I were the perfect...
On September 8, 2009 I went to my doctor for my annual physical. I'm very diligent about getting my regular checkup because I have a history...
On March 22, 1996 I was diagnosed with stage three inflammatory breast cancer and given months to live....
1. Educate yourself about endocrine disruptors, and educate your family and friends. Read the novel or other books (like Our Stolen Future: www.ourstolenfuture.com) and share them with others. I wrote a fact-based eco-thriller, because I wanted to...
I am honored to serve as a guest blogger on Dr. Greene's marvelous site. My wife is a holistic physician, and we tried to raise our children green, but there was much less knowledge about green parenting. We could really have used Raising Baby Green...
On June 27, 2009, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times reported that over 80% of the male smallmouth bass swimming in the Potomac River had eggs. You read that right, male fish having eggs. Well, unless a lot has changed since my biology class,...
Why do some children and adults get sick from these chemical contaminants and others do not? This is an important question that has to do with genes, chemical cocktails, and even possibly stress.
While I was researching my novel, I posed this...
From 1973 to 1999, childhood cancers increased by 26 percent, making cancer the greatest health threat to children. Currently, one in a 100 8-year-old children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to U.S. Centers...
I was right to desire my anonymity during my campaign, as the method for curbing my efforts came in a letter of retaliation from the property manager at The Arbors a week before Christmas and then a Cease and Desist letter from the lawyers...
I knew I had a window of opportunity during the winter, in that I could breathe clean air for the first time in months, and could now focus on developing a strategy to keep the roofers from coming back with asphalt for the remaining 100 roofs in the...
Even though the flu is less dangerous than many think the flu vaccine less dangerous than many think, factory farming of animals may continue to promote the creation of serious viruses and bacteria that threaten human populations. Swine flu comes...
The Centers for Disease Control say all people from 6 months through 24 years are in a high priority group for getting the flu shot this year. But I can understand the fear some parents have about the vaccine for the swine flu (H1N1). It has just...
Konrad Lorenz made his mark by studying a special type of learning where key exposures during a critical and sensitive window of development can have a lasting influence - a process he called imprinting. The famous example of this is imprinting in...
How can you tell the difference between cold and flu? I recorded this video with A.D.A.M. to give you information that will help you determine the difference between the two.
How do you know if you have swine flu (H1N1)? There's a great new online...
As a father of four himself, Dr. Greene has devoted himself to freely giving real answers to parents' real questions -- from questions about those all too common childhood conditions to those that address the most rare childhood illnesses. His...
Mosquitoes are attracted to things that remind them of nectar or mammal flesh. When outdoors, wear light clothing that covers most of the body, keeping as much skin and hair covered as practical. Click here for more of Dr. Greene’s Tips For Avoiding Mosquito Bites.
