HealthyChild.org is a great online resource for parents. It’s the website for an organization called Healthy Child, Healthy World and on it you can find great information about creating a greener, safer home and environment for your child. In 2008, the CEO and executive director of the nonprofit wrote a book: Healthy Child, Healthy World. [...]
Archive for the ‘Book recommendation’ Category
26 Dec
The Body Toxic
As you can probably tell, I’ve been reading a lot lately. I just finally have the time to tackle some subjects I’ve always wanted to read more about. One of those topics I’m very passionate about is toxic chemicals in our environment and how to best avoid them. If that is interesting to you too, [...]
21 Dec
Protecting our children from the chemicals in their environment
Protecting my children from the chemicals and toxins in their environment is the passion that caused me to launch this blog 2.5 years ago. After researching BPA and phthalates and working hard to eliminate them from our home, I decided to start this blog to share what I had learned. Now that it is almost [...]
16 Dec
Feeding Baby Green
I have recommended the book Raising Baby Green on this blog, and now the author, pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, has recently released another similar book called Feeding Baby Green. Even if you’re not pregnant or don’t have babies, this is a fascinating book on food and feeding children. Dr. Greene theorizes that the reason so [...]
6 Dec
The Food Revolution
I read this book months ago and have been meaning to write a review of it on this blog since then. It is so chock-full of information that I want to share, that I found it hard to figure out where to begin. The book is written by John Robbins, the son of the founder [...]
27 Aug
The longest living people in the world
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 [...]
4 Aug
Food, Inc. the book
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 [...]
22 Jul
Disease-Proof Your Child
I read the book Disease-Proof Your Child in late 2006 and liked it so much, that I recommended it to several friends. The first few chapters have a lot of great information about how diet affects health and disease. However, the recipe section at the end of the book was never a big hit with [...]
26 Jun
The China Study–why we should eat less animal protein
I recently finished reading The China Study. I got this book thinking it would be about the China study, where the health and diets of over 6000 rural Chinese were examined. It ended up being more of a summary about the life work of researcher T. Colin Cambell, Ph.D. I think a better title for [...]
10 Jun
The Unhealthy Truth
It’s not very often that I read a book that I think everyone needs to read. In fact, since I started this blog almost two years ago, it’s only happened once with In Defense of Food. However, I just finished reading The Unhealthy Truth, which came out last month, and I think that every parent [...]
