Chemical-Free Kids and Chemical-Free Kids: The Organic Sequel are your essential guidebooks to providing your family with a health-promoting, non-toxic diet, environment and lifestyle. Both books will equip you with the kind of strategies and information you need to keep your children from being unnecessarily exposed to toxic and suspect substances before they can result in irreparable harm to their well-being and development, and outline the steps you can easily take to maximize their physical, mental and emotional health.

Be Kind to Bees - By Going Organic

2.8.10

As if we hadn’t provided you with enough reasons to choose organic produce, here’s yet another very important one: to help keep your best friends in the insect world alive and buzzing.

The Organic Center, in reporting on the causes of “colony collapse disorder” that has been decimating entire honeybee populations, notes that “scientists in Europe have discovered a major new, widespread exposure pathway through which bees are ingesting nicotinyl insecticides in virtually all intensively farmed regions – honeybee sources of drinking water.” Read More.

First Lady’s “Victory Garden’ Winning Converts to Healthier Culinary Culture

1.29.10 Despite one of the coldest winters the nation’s capital has experienced in years, the “victory garden” cultivated last spring on the south lawn of the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama with the help of family and staff members and local school children, is as hot a commodity as ever. Read More.

Problems such as toxic cadmium in kids’ jewelry
may help spur passage of Kid Safe Chemical Act

1.20.10 The discovery of high amounts of the toxic metal cadmium in children’s jewelry manufactured (as so many retail items now are) in China is but the latest manifestation of the many insidious ways in which today’s kids may be exposed to harmful substances in everyday products.

The amounts of cadmium used in the jewelry at issue were cited as particularly hazardous to cognitive development in children, who might be apt to suck on or bite such items. One researcher, Dr. Aimin Chen of the University of Cincinnati’s medical school, has determined that cadmium exposure can lower a child’s IQ even more than lead, according to The Associated Press, which broke the story. Read more.

Keep saying 'No' to GMOs

1.14.10

The dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods, which we explored in Chemical-Free Kids: The Organic Sequel, are now getting more publicity than ever. Monsanto and other biotech corporations, with the backing of the FDA, like to portray genetic engineering of crops as a thoroughly safe, innocuous and beneficial process that can only make life better for both farmers and consumers, But the information that’s been emerging on this relatively new, untested and alien technology paints a very different and disquieting picture.

The link below will provide you with some of the latest news in the campaign to inform consumers about the hidden hazards of GM foods, and a handy guide for avoiding them. You can read more on the subject, including the sneaky way this technology was approved without safety testing and the destructive effects it is having on agriculture, in Chemical-Free Kids: The Organic Sequel (available at Amazon.com at our CFK store).

http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/SG/Home/index.cfm

Be Kind to Bees - By Going Organic

First Lady’s “Victory Garden’ Winning Converts to Healthier Culinary Culture

1.29.10

Problems such as toxic cadmium in kids’ jewelry may help spur passage of Kid Safe Chemical Act

1.20.10

The discovery of high amounts of the toxic metal cadmium in children’s jewelry manufactured (as so many retail items now are) in China is but the latest manifestation of the many insidious ways in which today’s kids may be exposed to harmful substances in everyday products.

Problems such as toxic cadmium in kids’ jewelry
may help spur passage of Kid Safe Chemical Act