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Posted in Favorite Things Friday, Siblings, Sleep, Toxins on Feb 5th, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve written a true cool things-focused Favorite Things Friday, so I figured I’d go back to my roots. For all my new readers — and there are a bunch of you these days — Favorite Things Friday is my opportunity to write about things I have seen and liked recently. [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Going Green, Health, Safety, Toxins on Jan 12th, 2010
I was reading a story in today’s Newsday. (Well, ExploreLI, since I can’t read Newsday anymore since it ceased being free online.) The story, Ribbons and Curls at Spas for Girls, profiled a local spa designed just for little girls. Bathrobes and pedicures and pink lemonade in Champagne glasses. For $180, the salon will even [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Environment, Going Green, Health, Toxins on Dec 2nd, 2009
Consider this: In the 1990s, the average age a little girl got breast buds — a precursor to puberty — was just shy of 11. Today the average age is about nine! More than one in ten girls start developing at seven. (Thanks @DrGreene for pointing this out!) How could this be? Some experts think [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Environment, Going Green, Health, Safety, Toxins on Oct 27th, 2009
“Here, use my inhaler.” We had just come out of our ballet class, and we watched as the woman who usually sits at the front desk tried to get her young teen daughter to take a puff of albuterol. The studio’s owner looked worried as she asked the woman if her daughter was sick. Did [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Environment, Food, Health, Toxins on Sep 16th, 2009
Trader Joe’s disappointed me. It’s usually my favorite grocery store — closer than Whole Foods, and a heck of a lot less expensive. But last week as I was picking up my dishwashing soap (TJ’s Next To Godliness Automatic Dishwashing powder), my eyes were drawn to a bottle sitting right above it. A small bottle [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, New York Times, Toxins on Sep 11th, 2009
Michael Pollan wrote a thought-provoking op-ed in the September 9 issue of The New York Times. His theory, according to the article entitled Big Food vs. Big Insurance, is that healthcare reform will have a profound effect on our quality of food. His proof: a report by the Centers of Disease Control and prevention that [...]