What Adults Can Learn from Kids (and Doctors from Patients!)
    What Adults Can Learn from Kids (and Doctors from Patients!)

    I love this brilliant, brief TED video of a child who explains how we adults underestimate our kids ? and how we adults need more childlike thinking: audacious ideas, unbounded creativity, and a fresh…

    Fast Facts on Indoor Air Quality
    Fast Facts on Indoor Air Quality

    Most of us spend the vast majority of each day indoors, where air quality can be 2-5 times worse than outside. Indoor air quality issues revolve around environmental contaminants such as allergens and…

    Kids on cell phones.
    Kids: More Time on Electronic Media than a 40 Hour Work Week

    What's the last thing a child touches before bed each night and the first thing he reaches for in the morning? For American kids between 8 and 18, there's a good chance it's a cell phone. But it's not…

    Kids and Smoking: Start the Conversations Early
    Kids and Smoking: Start the Conversations Early

    Each day 3,000 kids start smoking. One third of them will die from their addiction. Most preschool children today view smoking as an unhealthy, negative behavior. Somewhere around the time of kinderga…

    Parents Want to Makes Choices for Their Kids that Are Safe and Healthy
    Parents Want to Makes Choices for Their Kids that Are Safe and Healthy

    Here's a quick interview I did for HBTV at the Natural Products Expo held in Anaheim, California this past weekend. Among other things, we talked about a new disinfectant by Seventh Generation that is…

    The Epicenter
    The Epicenter

    To me the name Calcutta had long carried with it the idea of incalculable poverty and destitution, of Mother Theresa's work with the poorest of the poor. It was the epicenter of need. (more…)…

    One Cup of Tea
    One Cup of Tea

    The alarm on my otherwise useless cell phone went off at 5:30 am. We were leaving early to meet and distribute vitamins to the children of Bhatpara, the most remote village we had visited yet. (more&h…

    The Road to Jaigoan
    The Road to Jaigoan

    I've ridden the wooden Cyclone roller-coaster at Cony Island just one time. One minute and fifty seconds in the apple-red car, etched in time. The spine-jarringly rough ride and being thrown from side…

    Eating What The Host Serves
    Eating What The Host Serves

    When I travel, I try to eat and enjoy what my host sets before me, even if it might otherwise make me squeamish. Of course, I'll make my food preferences known if asked or if appropriate. But when the…

    They Say an Elephant Never Forgets
    They Say an Elephant Never Forgets

    In the narrow strip of India that separates Nepal from Bangladesh lies a tiny rural village called Chenga. The village is surrounded by fields, each a patchwork mosaic of knee-high tea trees in variou…

    Dr. Greene & Howard Schiffer for Vitamin Angels in Muhundapur India

    Video ©VitaminAngels/IN10/Dayka - Video by Matt Dayka I'm proud to be with my dear friend and Howard Schiffer, CEO of Vitamin Angels working together in India. This video was filmed live in Muhundapur…

    Every Parent Should Learn about Food Imprinting
    Every Parent Should Learn about Food Imprinting

    Dr. Greene's take on food imprinting... What and how our kids eat is central to their health both now and in the long run. Your early food decisions can help your child learn good food in much the sam…

    Colorful plastic bottles of cleaning supplies. Many conventional cleaning supplies are toxic.
    Safe & Healthy: An important, often neglected, childproofing step

    Whether your child is a baby learning to crawl across the floor, a toddler taking tentative steps of independence, or a confident older child, we pediatricians have recommended for years that parents …

    Parents Need A Wake-Up Story
    Parents Need A Wake-Up Story

    Children Need Bedtime Stories. Parents Need a Wake-Up Story! There was a time when the safest place on Earth for a child was home. (more…)…

    A Chemical Safety Net for Our Kids

    Many parents assume that our current government regulations do a pretty good job of protecting our children from exposures to unhealthy chemicals ? not realizing that the current law from the 1970's i…

    Can of food half open
    Reducing BPA Exposure: The FDA Finally Concerned

    What should parents do now? The FDA has finally, in January 2010, reversed its earlier position of calling exposure to small amounts of bisphenol A (BPA) safe. They now agree with the National Toxicol…

    Doctors' Blind Spot? The Patient
    Doctors’ Blind Spot? The Patient

    Right before our eyes there's a dark hole in what we see. Not only don't we see some of what's right in front of our face, but we don't even notice the gap. Our illusion of a seamless visual world is …

    Sick little girl taking medicine from a medicine cup. Dosing Spoon Surprise!
    Dosing Spoon Surprise

    Once again, my take is different than that of most. About 70 percent of Americans measure their liquid medicines in kitchen spoons. But when smart college students were asked to pour a real teaspoon o…

    Holstein cow sitting on a beautiful pasture. Can changing our buying habits to avoid factory farmed animals make a difference in human health?
    Can Changing Our Buying Habits Reduce the Risk of Another Pandemic Flu?

    Even though the flu is less dangerous than many think and the flu vaccine less dangerous than many think, factory farming of animals may continue to promote the creation of serious viruses and bacteri…

    Appreciating This Moment
    Appreciating This Moment

    With high speed internet starting to be available on some flights, let's pause, laugh, and wake up to this moment. (Thanks to Uf Tukel at www.icruise.com for sending the link and a great way to start …