Food & Diet

Indoor Air Quality and Safer Cleaning

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BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE

The quality of air inside our homes can be many times worse (on average, 2 to 5 times worse, according to the EPA) than outside air. And because on average we spend 90% of our time indoors, most of that time in our homes, we are quite susceptible to the air quality issues there. Children are particularly vulnerable as they breathe in 50% more air per pound of body weight than adults do. Indoor air quality issues are directly linked to asthma in children, which affect 6.3 million U.S. children.

Feeding Families Better

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BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE

First, there was the contaminated spinach from California; and then report after report of contaminated foods from China, everything from deadly pet foods to dried fruits laces with illegal pesticides and sea food laden with banned antibiotics; and then videos of dying cows rolled by forklift to slaughter and the ensuing recall of 143 MILLION pounds of beef. In the U.S., according to 2000 numbers, more than 5,000 people die every year from food-borne illnesses.  Another 76 million become ill and 325,000 are hospitalized.

Feeding Baby Better (And Avoiding Toxic Bottles)

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BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE

Much of what is at stake with feeding baby goes back to the discussion on toxic plastics.  Quite a fervor was caused when the group Environment California released a recent report entitled, “Toxic Baby Bottles” which showed that bisphenol-A (BPA) was leaching from baby bottles. And not just some baby bottles, but the 5 leading brands.  Under regular use, such as dishwashing and heating, the bottles leached BPA at levels thought to be harmful to babies and young children.  BPA mimics the hormone estrogen and may interfere with ovulation and reproduction as well as brain-cell development.

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