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 [...]

Babies exposed to BPA before they’re born

Several studies (see video) have found that toxic substances, many of which have been banned for decades, can be found in our bodies.  Most saddening to me is that many of these subtances have been found in the blood of umbilical cords of pregnant women, meaning that children are exposed to harmful chemicals before they’re [...]

Muir Glen tomato cans lined with BPA

A friend of my mother wrote Muir Glen lately asking “why aren’t your tomatoes in jars since cans have BPA, which is detrimental to our health, in the lining?”
This was their response:
Dear Valued Consumer,

Thank you for contacting Muir Glen regarding bisphenol-A in food packaging. Bisphenol-A is a critical component of protective coatings used with [...]

Our SIGG replacement

Just over a week ago, I found out that SIGG water bottles are lined with BPA (at least the older ones are, which were mostly what we had).  I thought about sending my older ones back to BPA and requesting gift certificates for new ones, which I heard SIGG was doing, but I honestly was [...]

Kid Safe Chemical Act

Consider signing this declaration in support of the Kid Safe Chemical Act.  The Envrionmental Working Group is trying to get 500,000 signatures.  For more info on the Act, open this pdf.

Low VOC paint

I ran into a neighbor at the local pub over the weekend and mentioned that we had been painting over the weekend.  She said she was going to paint soon too and we started talking about it.  I mentioned that the low-VOC paints we had used were on sale until the end of the month, [...]

Carcinogens in baby products

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, an organization comprised of the Environmental Working Group, the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, the Breast Cancer Fund, the Clean Water Fund, Commonwealth, Friends of the Earth, National Environmental Trust, and Women’s Voices for the Earth, among others, released a report last week about the presence of cancer-causing chemicals in [...]

Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup

A friend just informed me of this article which discusses two studies that found mercury in high fructose corn syrup.  I haven’t looked into the issue futher, but thought I would share the link.  I wonder what kind of ads the Corn Refiners Association will have to run to combat studies like these…

Must see video

One year ago almost to the day, I posted an entry about the Environmental Working Group’s Human Toxome Project and the corresponding Body Burden website.  I recently stumbled across a video of Ken Cook, co-founder and president of the EWG, discussing the Human Toxome Project, how the study was conducted, its results, its implications, and [...]

Long but good

A friend of mine recently sent me the link to this article.  It’s lengthy and covers a multitude of topics (BPA, phthalates, PBDEs, body burden, the ineffective Toxic Substances Control Act, etc.)  I often discuss on this blog.  My favorite sentence is this one, where the author is refering to the ability of the PBDEs [...]