Raising Happy Healthy Children…Naturally!
YEAH! Its strawberry season! One of my favorite times of year. We get a quart of freshly picked strawberries in our CSA (Consumer Supported Agriculture) box each week. My son looks forward to it, as do I.Â
Here is some fabulous information about how wonderfully healthy strawberries are (but please buy organic, they are one of the most heavily sprayed crops);
Here’s a site to help keep you updated (and help you easily get involved) on eliminating PVC;
Thanks to Kimb’ for sharing this very important link on Bisphenol A;
EWG (Environmental Working Group) want to find out. So they are starting their Bottled Water Project. To help them out, you can submit your bottled water info (What brand? Where did you purchase it? How much did you pay?What type of container?) here; http://www.ewg.org/issues/bottledwater/index.php
If you help them out NOW (first 1,000, I believe) you’ll get their free pesticde wallet card AND a fridge magnet!Â
Okay, so it seems there’s so much in the news as of late on this chemical that certain toy/baby bottle manufacturers and retail stores are petitioning to continue to use in products we expose our newborns to. I’ll just keep adding links to this entry, this one below summarizes the current research.
Now this you won’t believe!
Chemical agency ties under review. A firm with industry connections is removed from overseeing a federal evaluation on the safety of bisphenol A.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has begun a review of ties between a federal health center that evaluates the risks of chemicals to reproductive health and a consulting firm funded by companies that produce chemicals linked to reproductive disorders.
The investigation follows a Times report on Sunday that Sciences International, an Alexandria, Va., firm funded by more than 50 industrial companies, helps manage the federal Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction.
Among the firms with financial ties to Sciences International are two that produce bisphenol A, a chemical in polycarbonate plastic bottles that has been linked in animal testing to prostate and breast cancer and reduced fertility.
Since 1998, Sciences International has helped manage the federal reproductive health center and prepared draft reports analyzing bisphenol A and 16 other chemicals. The company has a $5-million contract with the center.
The center’s scientific advisory panel was scheduled to decide today whether bisphenol A endangers reproductive health in humans.
But on Tuesday, director Michael Shelby announced that the panel, after two days of reviewing the 372-page report that Sciences International prepared on bisphenol A, known as BPA, still had too many unresolved questions and was postponing its decision for six weeks.
Continue reading ‘More on Bisphenol A and NOW A Conflict of Interest’
Bisphenol A is rearing its ugly head again. That same chemical at the heart of the Toxic Toy law in California, that toy manufacturers and stores are fighting so strongly against being banned in baby bottles.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/117315996466490.xml&coll=1
Terressentials is a brand that I haven’t tried yet but has been on my radar for a number of years now. I keep emailing them pleading with them to start an affiliate program. ; )Â
 If toxic chemicals in your personal care are of a concern to you, THIS looks like the brand to try and it comes highly recommended by many HP mamas. Today I stumbled upon a site offering some of the shampoo on clearance so its a good way to check it out.Â
http://www.thegreenloop.com/TerrEssentials_Organic_Hair_Wash_p/te-hairwash.htm
Every once in a while, a new site comes along that really wows me. This site may not be very new at all but I just stumbled upon it and am so glad I did. It is wonderfully simplistic and yet chock full of REAL information. Check it out;
http://eartheasy.com/homepage.htm           Ideas for environmentally sustainable living