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		<title>Blue Orange games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son just received a game from the company Blue Orange.  It is a high quality game made of wood pieces and non-toxic paint.  The company tries to be sustainable in their game production and plants two trees for every one they use.  We like the game we got so much that I&#8217;ve ordered a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/03/08/blue-orange-games/</link>
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		<title>35 years of walking to work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Dad was just honored at his job for having been there for 35 years.  While that&#8217;s impressive, what really makes me proud is that he&#8217;s also been walking to that job for 32 of those 35 years.  Being the scientist that he is, I asked him to run some numbers for fun and here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/03/05/35-years-of-walking-to-work/</link>
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		<title>Birthday cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son turned 5 this week.  We had a birthday party for him and per our family tradition, my husband and I made the cake ourselves.  Regular grocery store cakes worry me&#8211;what artificial ingredients are in the cake, what hydrogenated oils are used in the frosting, what artificial flavors and colors were used to decorate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/03/03/birthday-cake/</link>
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		<title>Banana coconut rum cookies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a huge fan of chocolate chip cookies&#8211;I just think they&#8217;re boring.  These cookies are not boring.  They are flavored with so many wonderful ingredients:  bananas, rum, coconut, oatmeal, nuts, and cranberries.  YUM!  I heavily modified a recipe from Cooking Light and they turned out wonderful.  This recipe makes easily 36-48 cookies so get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/03/02/banana-coconut-rum-cookies/</link>
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		<title>Buying second hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year or two, I&#8217;ve been trying to buy more things used.  At first, I started with children&#8217;s clothing and shoes and now have moved on to art, rugs, furniture and baby stuff.  I have always been weary of buying &#8220;someone else&#8217;s junk,&#8221; but I am over that now.  My neighborhood has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/02/25/buying-second-hand/</link>
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		<title>Buying an organic mattress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been in need of a new crib mattress.  While we are expecting our third baby (and you&#8217;d think we already had a crib mattress), we have decided to keep our 2 year old on it in his crib for now.  We bought a second hand crib from a neighbor but didn&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/02/19/buying-an-organic-mattress/</link>
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		<title>Sign the petition to support the Kid Safe Chemical Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Environmental Working Group wants to collect 75,000 signatures to show that Americans support the Kid Safe Chemical Act.  We don&#8217;t think that current chemical legislation is adequate (see my letter) and believe that all chemicals should demonstrate safety before they can be sold.  The EWG has already gotten 40,000 signatures in one week.  Consider [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/02/16/sign-the-petition-to-support-the-kid-safe-chemical-act/</link>
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		<title>Rug shopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have found shopping for household items to be more challenging with a health and environmentally conscious mindset, but I&#8217;ve enjoyed the challenge and am much happier about the things I&#8217;m bringing into my home.  This past week, I was shopping for a 5&#215;8 rug for my entry way and a rug pad.  I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/02/15/rug-shopping/</link>
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		<title>New cloth diapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After going through two kids, our cloth diapers are in pretty rough shape.  So we are buying a new stash for baby #3.  Shopping for cloth diapers in 2010 is so different than in 2005!!  I love all the organic cotton options and many diapers are now one-size-fits-most.  Unfortunately, prices have gone up too, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/02/11/new-cloth-diapers/</link>
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		<title>Not your usual pregnancy book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read many pregnancy books&#8211;the typical week by week guides, natural and organic pregnancy books, books about labor and delivery.  None are like Having Faith, written by Sandra Steingraber.  When I first got the book from a library in stack of other books I was anxious to read, it went straight to the bottom.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthtakenseriously.com/2010/02/09/not-your-usual-pregnancy-book/</link>
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