Happy 2nd Birthday to HealthTakenSeriously.com. My first post was two years ago today! Here are some of my favorite posts from the second year of this blog:
Eden Foods and BPA-free cans
Reading Aloud to your children
EWG’s video about toxins and babies
Nasal irrigation
Community Supported Agriculture
Lead in vitamins
Western diet and cancer
The film Food, Inc.
The book The China [...]
Filed under: Random on August 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
I recently wrote a post about an article online discussing Blue Zones, or places in the world where people live the longest. This particular article covered a Greek island called Ikaria. I learned that a book about four other Blue Zones was written just last year. Since my 30th birthday was coming up, it seemed [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation on August 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
This is a rough week for me–in the span of 48 hours, I have learned that two companies I trusted were dishonest with their consumers. First, I found out that SIGG water bottles used to be lined with BPA. Second, I found out that sometime in the spring of 2009, Silk soymilk stopped using organic [...]
Filed under: Organic on August 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In April 2006, I was on the market for a sippy cup or water bottle not made from plastic. I was hoping to avoid some of the chemicals often used in plastics (i.e. BPA, phthalates). I opted for a SIGG water bottle and bought three for my son. Since then, I’ve acquired two more and [...]
Filed under: BPA, Children, Plastic on August 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow night, I am giving an hour long talk on “Green Parenting” for my neighborhood’s sustainability seminar series. Basically, I’m trying to sum up what I think is important for parents to do if they’re concerned about their children’s and the environment’s health. I’m sharing the outline for my talk below, if you’re interested.
Filed under: Children on August 17th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is one of my favorite summer meals. You can make extra stuffing, put it in a baking dish, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and bake alongside the stuffed eggplants. My kids gobble it up!
Ingredients:
3 medium eggplants
4 tsp olive oil, divided
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
2 cups chopped bell pepper (I prefer red and yellow)
1/4 cup dry [...]
Filed under: Recipe on August 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
One of my favorite things to do in the summer is take my family to an organic farm about 25 minutes from our house. They have strawberries and raspberries you can pick yourself, and a barn full of fresh, organic produce for purchase. They team up with other farmers in the area to provide meat, [...]
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Organic on August 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
I recently wrote about seeing the film Food, Inc. I discovered shortly after seeing the movie that the producers of the film had also created a book to accompany it. The book is a collection of essays, many written by people that appear in the film (i.e. Michael Pollan). It’s a really great read, as [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation on August 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
We have now received our CSA shares for about 6 weeks. We love it! In addition to our weekly vegetables and fruits, we added a dozen organic, pastured eggs to our order. I met a woman that had visited the farm herself and she told me the chickens were in fact kept in a wonderfuly [...]
Filed under: Environment, Food and Nutrition, Organic on August 1st, 2009 | No Comments »