Kids’ Health

Do you know what is in your meat?

May 24, 2011




I originally posted this article on Care2.com in February 2011. I am reposting it here as part of the Healthy Child, Healthy World initiative to educate parents about the over-use of antibiotics. Most of the antibiotics in the US are administered to animals living in concentrated, industrial feeding operations. This week, Healthy Child, Healthy World [...]

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Erring On The Side of Caution

May 5, 2011




Some conversations on social media are fleeting. Here today, forgotten tomorrow. Some stick with you forever. Others, forgotten for a while, can come back to haunt. This is the story of one of those conversations. A frustrated mother, twitter, and the police Back in 2009, a mother frustrated by bedtime battles with her daughter vented [...]

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What are Community Values?

March 1, 2011




When I hear the term “community values”, I think of people coming together to support each other in health, happiness and success. I think of people reaching across barriers and getting to know people who are different from them. I think of people being considerate of their neighbours and polite to each other. I don’t [...]

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Canadian women: We’re fat, our kids are fat, and we’re letting other people raise our children

February 4, 2011




Today’s news stories come with a heavy dose of woman and mother-blame. Canadian women getting fatter, and fast…: In the Ottawa Citizen, Sharon Kirkey reported that Canadian women are becoming overweight faster than almost any other women in the high-income world. At least this article ended with a couple of suggestions on tackling structural issues [...]

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Who will gain the most weight?

December 28, 2010




Imagine three groups of people. They make up a variety of different socioeconomic groups, genetic backgrounds, and activity levels. As part of a study, their diets are the same except for one thing — the type of grains they eat. Instead of eating what they like or what they think they should eat, each of [...]

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My babies were healthy without Lysol

December 6, 2010




Today brings us yet another round of Think Before You Tweet.  Twitter Moms is hosting a Lysol Twitter Party with the theme of Healthy Babies.  It is scheduled to take place on twitter from 7:00pm to 8:00pm EST on Tuesday, December 7 using the hashtag #lysolmoms. There are already more than 100 people signed up [...]

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Guest Post: Inside the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference

October 6, 2010




When I saw my friend Maya (@MarfMom) tweeting about some of the things she saw at the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference, I asked her if she would be willing to share some of her observations with me in a guest post. While I am disgusted by many of the things she has to say, [...]

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Cora’s Story: The hidden disease of congenital heart defects

September 27, 2010




Today I am welcoming my friend Kristine as a guest poster. I have been following Kristine (@KristineBrite) on twitter for quite a while and have been inspired by the way she turned her personal tragedy into incredibly important advocacy work that will save the lives of infants. Kristine blogs and shares important information on her [...]

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Water: A Right and a Risk

August 23, 2010




I’ve grown up with a love of water. Swimming in it, boating on it, relaxing near it, drinking it. Water brings me peace and gives me life. I’ve often taken water for granted — both the free water that I have such easy access to and the affordability and convenience of bottled water. I’ve made [...]

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Emotional Availability and Infant Sleep

August 17, 2010




Over the past few days, several people notified me about a Globe and Mail article called Coddle or let the kid cry? New research awakens the sleep-training debate with a header that read: “While many moms and dads reluctantly allow their infant to ‘cry it out,’ some experts now say the practice can cause real [...]

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