Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Education, Food on Mar 18th, 2010
PepsiCo on Tuesday announced a new global policy on sweetened sodas in school: They’ve taken a withdrawal. Starting in 2012, you won’t be able to find a can of Mountain Dew — or any of its full sugar sodas — in any K-12 school across the world. (PepsiCo already pulled the trigger on the policy [...]
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Health, Illness, Pregnancy, Research, Toxins on Feb 16th, 2010
I’m really mad at the Powers that Be. They have let us down yet again. This past month there has been a flurry of new research and lawmaking related to chemicals and toxins and their effects on our children. I want to know why it’s taken so long to figure some of these out.
The [...]
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, Eating Healthy, Food on Nov 24th, 2009
Last night my husband stayed up until 2 a.m. baking brownies for my big girl’s school sharing feast. Apparently, the Native Americans gave the settlers chocolate as a gift, so we were assigned something chocolate. All the food at the feast has to be vegetarian — vegan preferred — but since we were baking we [...]
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 on Sep 11th, 2009
This morning, as I stood there making my daughter’s school lunch, I had to stop for a moment. Her lunch (a bagel with cream cheese) was slightly thicker than a sandwich. What, I wondered, could I wrap it in? It wouldn’t fit into my BPA-free sandwich container. None of my choices were what I would [...]
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 says [...]