Susan Comfort spent two decades working for environmental groups like EWG and 1% for the Planet, trying not to let all the bad news get her down. She now promotes the cause of play as the VP for Philanthropy with KaBOOM!, for which she has personal...
Within the depths of your imagination there is a place more beautiful than words could begin to describe.
A place where quiet pathways are hidden within the trees, protected from the world as we know it, it is a place of peaceful beginnings, a...
Sarah Christensen is the mother and photographer behind the popular blog BecomingSarah.com, a website that candidly and humorously chronicles the ins and outs of contemporary parenthood.
She and her husband focus on natural and responsive parenting...
Jeff Cox is the author of 19 books on food, wine, and gardening from the organic perspective, including the James Beard Foundation-nominated "The Organic Cook's Bible.".
He's the former managing editor of Organic Gardening magazine and has hosted...
Sunny Young is fresh out Hendrix College and armed with a degree in … African Studies?
After traveling to the great island nation of Madagascar and working on a fair trade vanilla plantation, Sunny’s interest in food policy turned into a...
I am a stay at home mother of two teenage girls. I found Dr Greene while trying to find out about my youngest daughters seizures, she has since out grown them, but I have not out grown DrGreene.com, there is so much relevant information here that...
I prefer foods close to the way they are found in nature. For instance, drinking a 10 ounce glass of organic whole milk from grass-fed cows can deliver as much beta-carotene as 6 nectarines.
“Remember to give all of the antibiotics even if your child is feeling better…” NOT!
Antibiotics were among the greatest advances of the 20th century, preventing untold suffering and saving countless lives. But almost immediately, the bacteria...
I pulled this ParentsTV video out of the vault of oldies, but goodies. In it, host Juli Auclare asks, "What parent doesn't love making choices that are not only healthy for their kids, but safe for the environment, too?" That's the premise of Dr....
In our life time the role of germs in infection has been an accepted fact, but it wasn't always so. Before this important discovery life was very different. I've narrated this informative video to tell the story of how germs were discovered and a...
In major US cities 85% of adults are now washing their hands after using public restrooms, according to a 2010 study where disguised researchers observed the washing behavior of 6,028 people at two train stations, a sports stadium, a museum, an...
What if there were a simple way that you could drop the number of coughs, colds, and fevers your child gets this school year by more than half? And when your child does get sick, what if you could cut the length of the illness in half? What if you...
Surprisingly, 1 to 3% of preschool age children may be depressed. Former Surgeon General David Satcher has said that we have a children's mental health crisis because 8 out of 10 kids with real mental health problems remain undiagnosed. Early...
By now it should be quite clear that what's best for the planet is also what's best for our health. Polluted air, water, and soil eventually lead to polluted people because, like every other creature on this big blue globe, we depend on air, water,...
Those who disparage organic food often claim it’s too expensive and imply that consumers are being scammed.
Well, it’s true that organic food is often more expensive than conventionally grown food. But let’s examine why a little more closely.
The news was astounding. When researchers tested the blood in the umbilical cords of newborn babies, they found 273 different commercial chemicals. That means that all those chemicals passed the placental barrier and reached the developing fetus’s...
I recently tasted a group of wines made by Paul Dolan and grown near Hopland in Mendocino County, California. Dolan was for many years at the helm of Fetzer winery in Hopland, a pioneering winery using organically-grown grapes. His tenure at Fetzer...
Earlier this year there was a massive Tylenol recall. The recall included Infant Tylenol drops, Children's Tylenol, as well as many other children's medications. I'm not exaggerating when I say massive, but generic medications (liquid acetaminophen...
As most of you who read my blog know, I am the mother of two young boys under the age of five and the creator of Little Pim, an educational DVD series that introduces babies, toddlers and preschoolers to a second language. Although I have mixed...
There is a lot of information (and opinion) about how to get your infant to sleep through the night. Cry it out/don't cry it out, rocking/no rocking, co-sleeping/crib sleeping, white noise/no noise, breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. Everyone has an...
Dressing newborn babies is a fine art. Getting tiny flailing limbs to shimmy down a long sleeve. Easing a floppy little head through a neck hole. Keeping their infinitesimal socks from falling off their feet. Just when you get it figured out, new...
Adapted by: Sunny Young TheLunchBox.org blogger
Here are great tips from TheLunchBox.org on how to be a healthy school food advocate:
Why are we throwing a tantrum about school lunch?
Consider these staggering facts:
When a toddler or preschooler is still using a bottle to go to sleep, this choice has become a deeply ingrained habit. Weaning her from the bottle will require either finding an effective substitute, or using tremendous force to break the patterns. Click here for Dr. Greene’s tips for weaning a child from a bedtime bottle.
