A Huge Idea About Organics
    A Huge Idea About Organics

    Young babies and elderly adults are living at important times of transition. They share some common vulnerabilities and possibilities. For example, the otherwise healthy people most at risk for seriou…

    Pine-fresh Scent: Depressing?!
    Pine-fresh Scent: Depressing?!

    Air fresheners and aerosol sprays can lead to sicker babies, sicker moms, and moms who are depressed, according to an October 19, 2004 announcement from the University of Bristol. This is the latest n…

    Crippling Our Children
    Crippling Our Children

    What can take otherwise vibrant, healthy teens and permanently give them the lung capacities of 50-year-olds? Air pollution! Perhaps spare the air days should be called spare the children days. The ai…

    Common Fumes Cause Asthma?
    Common Fumes Cause Asthma?

    Could it be that how you clean or how you decorate your home might influence whether your child develops asthma? Could the smell of new wall-to-wall carpets be linked to asthma risk? A provocative stu…

    Healthier Babies and Insect Sprays: A Change That Worked
    Healthier Babies and Insect Sprays: A Change That Worked

    Women who wouldn't consider smoking while pregnant might not think twice about putting flea collars on their pets or spraying to control cockroaches. Thankfully, somebody did. While revelers were cele…

    Baby Waking at Night?
    Baby Waking at Night?

    A SIDS Silver Lining Breastfed babies have longer sleep cycles than formula-fed babies, according to a study in the January 2004 Archives of Diseases in Childhood, but the breastfed babies are also mo…

    Why Coal is an Issue for Families
    Why Coal is an Issue for Families

    About 630,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year with dangerous levels of mercury in their blood, according to the shocking 2004 figures of the Environmental Protection Agency. In the past, people …

    Fireproofing Breastmilk?
    Fireproofing Breastmilk?

    High levels of a potentially toxic flame retardant have been found in the breastmilk of US women, according to a September 23, 2003 study released by the Environmental Working Group. The average amoun…

    Asthma and SARS
    Asthma and SARS

    There has never been a better time to be sure your asthma is under control. With a proper treatment plan, most asthma symptoms can be prevented or minimized. Uncontrolled, the linings of the airways i…

    Shaping the Future of Life
    Shaping the Future of Life

    Each year on April 7, the world celebrates World Health Day. I am excited that the 2003 theme is "Shape the Future of Life: Healthy Environments for Children". Often, children's homes (and the homes o…

    Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.
    Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.

    Some 2,500 people were tested in the largest survey ever to see if the pesticides and other chemicals polluting our environment are also polluting our bodies.  (more…)…

    America’s Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses
    America’s Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their second report on America's Children and the Environment on February 24, 2003. Where we have taken decisive action on issues of the environment,…

    University of Washington Study: Organophosphorus pesticide exposure of urban and suburban pre-school children with organic and conventional diets
    University of Washington Study: Organophosphorus pesticide exposure of urban and suburban pre-school children with organic and conventional diets

    We've known from earlier studies that pesticides and toxic chemicals aren't just in the environment ? but get into our developing children's bodies. Some kids have high levels and others quite low. Wh…

    Links Between Chemicals and Health: Related Tidbits
    Links Between Chemicals and Health: Related Tidbits

    Our drinking water is tested to look for the presence of toxic chemicals. Our air quality is monitored as well. Recently, several important studies have reported the levels of these chemicals in our b…

    Links Between Chemicals and Health
    Links Between Chemicals and Health

    Choosing organic foods can make a big difference for our children. Industrial agriculture techniques are relatively recent innovations. When my parents were young, the bulk of our food supply was not …

    Loss of neuropathy target esterase in mice links organophosphate exposure to hyperactivity
    Loss of neuropathy target esterase in mice links organophosphate exposure to hyperactivity

    The Story A missing link! How would exposure to pesticides (or related chemical warfare agents) result in ADHD? Scientists have found an important enzyme ? and an important gene ? whose activity is de…

    Body Burden
    Body Burden

    This study features the largest number of chemicals ever tested for in the same group of people ? 210 chemicals were tested. The results were staggering ? each participant tested positive for an avera…

    EPA Report on Children and the Environment (Lead, Tobacco, Asthma, and Mercury)
    EPA Report on Children and the Environment (Lead, Tobacco, Asthma, and Mercury)

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their second report on America's Children and the Environment on February 24, 2003. Where we have taken decisive action, kids' health is getting bett…

    Body Burdens
    Body Burdens

    Our drinking water is tested to look for the presence of toxic chemicals. Our air quality is monitored as well. Recently, several important studies have reported the levels of these chemicals in our b…

    Organic Lunchbox Challenge
    Organic Lunchbox Challenge

    Dr. Greene on the Organic Lunchbox Challenge... Students I speak with observe that school food is often either unappetizing (overcooked cafeteria veggies) or unhealthy. Tasty junk food at school has b…