Our Children and Our Environment: An Intimate Connection.

Our children are intimately connected to our environment: all health is environmental health. Healthy land, air and water can produce healthy food and healthy, active children.

Think about some of the health problems that have been worsening in our children: asthma, ADHD, autism, diabetes, hypertension, allergies, hypospadius, testicular dysgenesis, obesity and a number of childhood cancers, for example. Each worsening problem can be linked to unhealthy interactions with unhealthy food, water, air, land or with the chemicals with which we have been polluting them.

In DrGreene's Environmental Health Topic, we explore some of these connections and consider the steps we might take in our own homes, schools and playgrounds to improve the world we raise our kids in.