Category Archives: Children’s Health

The New GMOs: What You Need to Know

Posted on April 6, 2012 by lzerbe| 3 Comments

By Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, senior scientist at Pesticide Action Network

As if the disaster of RoundUp resistant superweeds sweeping our farmland weren’t enough, Monsanto is now preparing to launch an even greater disaster: a new soybean engineered to be resistant to the older, more toxic weedkiller, dicamba. The seed — which Monsanto plans to market in 2014 if approved — will also come stacked with the company’s RoundUp Ready gene, and is designed to be used with Monsanto’s proprietary herbicide “premix” of dicamba and glyphosate. Continue reading →

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Superbug Lawsuit Could Save Antibiotics

Posted on March 26, 2012 by lzerbe| Leave a comment

by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council

Last Thursday night, a federal court ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on the practice of giving antibiotics to livestock through animal feed. This victory will help protect American families against superbugs and other drug-resistant bacteria. Continue reading →

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Salt Wars: What’s Really Too Much?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University

Dietary sodium continues to generate much talk but little action.

The CDC issued a recent Vital Signs report on dietary sodium with this graphic:

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Should Major League Baseball Ban Chewing?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by lzerbe| Leave a comment

by Deirdre Imus, founder and president of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at Hackensack University Medical Center

As baseball spring training gets underway, it’s more important than ever to highlight the dangers of chewing tobacco, and to implore Major League Baseball, which last year banned players from using it when fans are present, to prohibit its use altogether.

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 11 percent of high school boys and 1.5 percent of high school girls (6.1 percent of all high school students) use chewing tobacco, also called smokeless tobacco, and it’s just as awful for you as smoke-full tobacco. Continue reading →

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Should the First Amendment be Banned in the Junk Food Aisle?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by lzerbe| 4 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University.

For some time now, I’ve been arguing that legal scholars ought to be challenging the contention of food corporations that the First Amendment gives them the right to market foods any way they like, even to kids. Continue reading →

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Are sugars toxic? Should they be regulated?

Posted on February 6, 2012 by lzerbe| 8 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University.

Nature, the prestigious science magazine from Great Britain, has just published a commentary with a provocative title–The toxic truth about sugar—and an even more provocative subtitle: Added sweeteners pose dangers to health that justify controlling them like alcohol. Continue reading →

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1 in 28: Your Odds of Getting Sick at the Beach This Year

Posted on January 31, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments


 by Steve Fleischli, senior attorney at Natural Resources Defense Council

A new EPA proposal to address pollution at U.S. beaches allows 1 in 28 people to get sick when they go to the beach.  Imagine a school fieldtrip to the beach – for every large conventional school bus, nearly three kids would be put at risk of getting an illness like diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting.   Continue reading →

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New School Lunch Rules: What Do They Mean?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by lzerbe| 1 Comment
By Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University.Michelle Obama and Tom Vilsack announced new nutrition standards for school meals yesterday, to what seems to be near-universal applause (the potato growers are still miffed, according to the New York Times). Continue reading →

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The New Immune System Wreckers: Consumer Products

Posted on January 25, 2012 by lzerbe| 3 Comments

 
By Jennifer Sass, PhD, senior scientist at Natural Resources Defense Council

Never heard of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs)? They’re used in many of the most common consumer products, including non-stick coatings, waterproofing chemicals, and stain-resistent coatings on clothing, furniture, food packaging, non-stick pans, shiny coatings in pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags, etc. They get into food, drinking water, and dust from coated products. And, then, into our blood and bodies. Continue reading →

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The Army Project That Threatens Modern Medicine

Posted on January 23, 2012 by lzerbe| 1 Comment

 

By Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper

The Delaware Estuary and Bay are special places with a rich ecological history that has contributed to the ecology, culture, history, and economy of our region. All of this gets put at tremendous risk by an Army Corps dredging project that has been shown a likely financial loser that is not needed to support the ports or communities of our region.

Horseshoe crabs help fuel millions in tourism funds and they help make vaccines safer for us, too.

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