Fill your Cart with Color: Successful strategies for shopping with your kids

Jennifer Tyler Lee is a mom and the creator of Crunch a Color™, the award winning healthy eating game that makes mealtime fun. Challenged by trying to get her kids (ages 5 and 7) to eat healthy meals, she decided to take matters into her own hands. In a few short months, Crunch a Color™ has gone from her kitchen table to nationwide stores and winner of the Dr. Toy and Parent Tested, Parent Ap...

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What Is Radon?

by Margie Kelly, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World Most of us know better than to expose our children to cigarette smoke, but are you preventing exposure to the second leading cause of lung cancer? Radon is a cancer-causing, radioactive gas that is released in rock, soil, and water from the natural decay of uranium. It seeps into buildings, building up in your indoor air. You ca...

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Reflections of a New Mother: Wonder, Gratitude and Helping Others

Kim spends her days as Communications Manager for Vitamin Angels, where she gets the word out on the non-profit’s mission and works to ensure no donation goes unappreciated. She spends the rest of her time in her role as new mommy encouraging her little one to eat his veggies. One day soon there’s going to be a new man in my life. Though I’ve been waiting around for 9 months for the big d...

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Stand Up To Carcinogens For Kids

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director and CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World Late last month, CNN reported the death of Saoirse Fitzgerald, the one-year-old girl whoalongside her mother, Keziahad battled cancer. This heartbreaking story serves to remind all of us at Healthy Child Healthy World why were hereto honor the memory Colette Chuda, the five-year-old girl whose tragic death from ped...

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FDA Tests Apple Juice For Arsenic, Says Most Are OK

by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Author and Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University Perhaps in response to Consumer Reports charges that levels of arsenic in childrens juices are so high that more restrictive standards would be healthier (see previous post), the FDA has done its own tests, updated its ...

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New Year’s Eve and the Value of Tradition in Parenting

Kimberly Danek Pinkson is a mom to Corbin, an Aunti to Luke and Sebastion, and the Co-Founder of EcoMom.com and EcoMom Alliance. For more than twenty years, all of her work has been imbued with a sense of global interconnection and a commitment to health and wellness. I wish I was the kind of parent that provided nap time at exactly the same time every day; that had a sit down dinner with ...

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In the coming year, I vow to be a uni-tasker.

Ruth Kaiser is a children’s author, preschool teacher, TED Talk speaker AND the creator of the popular online art project SpontaneousSmiley.com. Thousand of people find, photograph and share Smiley Faces they find in everyday objects. The whole concept that multitasking is wonderful, is quite frankly absurd. I don’t buy the theory, that if only we could master multitasking we would have a ...

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How to Stay Sane in a Toxic World

Lori Popkewitz Alper is the founder and editor-in-chief of Groovy Green Livin, a site dedicated to sharing green living tips and information with individuals, families, schools and businesses. A contributing writer for multiple blogs and websites, Lori speaks, writes and advises clients on a variety of issues related to creating a greener lifestyle. As parents, we want nothing but the best...

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Relax To Reduce Toxic Risks

by Janelle Sorensen, Chief Communications Officer, Healthy Child Healthy World Back when I was on the public speaking circuit teaching parents about toxic risks, at the end of each presentation I would tell parents not to get too neurotic or stressed out about what they had just learned. Stress can have powerful, negative impacts on your body and it doesnt make sense to work so hard on reducing o...

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How Doctors Die - It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be

Dr. Murray has spent his career caring for families. His medical interests include End-of-life Care and Quality Outcomes. In his spare in he enjoys being in the outdoors, especially sailing. This piece was originally published in Zocalo Public Square, an online magazine of ideas. Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had ...

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