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Our children are exposed to high levels of pesticides and herbicides ingested and inhaled daily, which is negatively impacting the health of an entire generation. Two significant court rulings today in favor of protecting our children and the environment from toxins.
The primary aim of a course developed by the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is to educate kids about the complex workings of the food system and how they can help to change it. The course also aims to teach students a little something about cooking, nutrition, and food budgeting—once the purview of the home economics classes offered across the U.S.
When a person acquires VZV for the first time, usually in childhood, chickenpox develops. However, even after the illness has been treated, the virus does not go away. Instead, it remains dormant in the body, in the nerve roots. After many years, usually during adulthood, the virus can reactivate and then cause shingles.
The New York State Assembly has put forth a bill than bans BPA substitution chemicals in children's products. The bill, which has been referred to the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, would expand existing legislation that prohibits the sale of child care products that contain bisphenol-A.
There is another vaccine scandal that has broken in China involving the sale of at least 250,000 doses of “faulty” DPT vaccines produced by Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology of Jilin Sheng, China and the falsification of production and inspection data for 113,000 of its Vero cell-based human rabies vaccines.
Tinnitus: a chronic ringing in your ears. The sounds are caused when cells are damaged inside the cochlea, your inner ear, and the malfunctioning cells end up sending signals to your brain even in the absence of audible sound. Your brain translates these signals into what has been described as ringing, buzzing, hissing, clicking, chirping, screeching, static, whooshing and/or whistling sounds.
Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a “Food Additives and Child Health” policy statement calling for “urgently needed reforms to the current regulatory process at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for food additives.” The policy applies to chemicals deliberately added to food or to food packaging or food processing equipment that get into food.
A growing volume of scientific research indicates many food additives and chemicals used in packaging do seem to be linked to potentially serious, life-long health problems, said Leonardo Trasande, lead author of the statement and an associate professor at the New York University School of Medicine.
More than 97,000 California public school students have been diagnosed as autistic, a number that has risen seven-fold since 2001, according to the latest special education data from the California Department of Education. The figure represent a jump of about 6,500, or 7 percent, from 2014-15 to 2015-16.
While there are many sources of chemical exposure, our food is a significant one, as most conventionally farmed foods are sprayed with pesticides. The chemical industry would have you believe pesticide residues on food is of no major concern. Others vehemently disagree.
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