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"Even in 1991, at the beginning of the era of the increased dosage of thimerosal, many industry leaders were worried about the effects that this amount of mercury might have upon children's health. A memo from a leading executive at a drug company that was dispensing thimerosal warned that, "The mercury dose appears rather large." By the end of the 1990s, when there was an explosion in the incidence of autism, many parents blamed it on the vaccinations, because their children's health had seemed to deteriorate shortly after they had been vaccinated." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"With that goal in mind, I've written this book for you—all the concerned parents (and future parents) out there who are ready to take charge of their children's health once and for all. Greening Your Baby is a chronological, stage-by-stage guide that will take you from the moment you first entertain the possibility of having a child all the way through the moment when you send that child off into the "real world," whether that means college or the workplace." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Meryl Streep marvels, "It is bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician." You start to realize that cooking food destroys its life. My parents took a photo of me on my first birthday. I was entranced by the flame of the single candle, touched it and cried. Fire can be seductive, as it exudes warmth and engenders a secure feeling. Fire dazzles as it releases aromas while the foods heat up, but don't be fooled. Fire kills food. Plant a raw seed in the ground, and watch it sprout. Watch it grow. Plant a roasted seed, and watch it rot!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"And since having two kids, she had a keen interest in children's health. In her mid 30s, Jane merged her interests into a new career as vice president of research at the Environmental Working Group, specializing in exposing the health risks from toxins in food, air, water and consumer products. But she never wove together the threads of cosmetics, chemicals and children's health until a warm day in October 2000. The US Centers for Disease Control had just released new research from their study of the levels of toxic chemicals in the bodies of average 15 Americans." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"You are also wrecking your children's health, and that of people around you. Having read this book you now know you can improve your asthma using the many techniques and suggestions we have given you. Look after your body and it will look after you. Sometimes you need to analyse why you are smoking to be able to stop. þDo you find yourself holding a cigarette that you can't remember lighting? If you don't even know that you are having the cigarette, why have it at all! þDo you smoke to calm down or to help you concentrate under pressure?" - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Randomized trial of physical activity and calcium supplementation BMC in 3-5 year old healthy children: The South Dakota children's health Study. J. Bone Miner. Res. 17, S398. 100. Chevalley, T., Rizzoli, R., Hans, D., Ferrari, S., and Bonjour, J.-P. (2005). Interaction between calcium intake and menarcheal age on bone mass gain: An eight-year follow-up study from prepuberty to postmenarche. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab . 90, 44-51. 101. Auld, G, Boushey, C. J., Bock, M. A., Bruhn, C, Gabel, K., Gustafson, D., Holmes, B., Misner, S., Novotony, R., Peck, L., Pelican, S., Pond-Smith, D." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Jeffrey Lobas, the director of fourteen clinics in Iowa that specialize in children's health. "It's what I see as a common practice." I first met Dr. Lobas, who is also a professor at the University of Iowa, at a pediatrics conference in Washington in May 2005. We both were attending an early Sunday-morning session for physicians on how to treat attention deficit disorders in preschoolers. Five doctors spoke about how to diagnose these young children and treat them with prescription stimulants such as Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, and others." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The organization (formerly known as CHEC, or children's health Environmental Coalition) boasts an impressive roster of supporters from celebrity and leadership circles who are dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of children from harmful environmental exposures. It was founded by James and Nancy Chuda in 1991 after their daughter Colette died from Wilms' tumor, a rare form of nonhereditary cancer. Unfortunately, children can sometimes bear the brunt of our toxic environment." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Organic and nutritious foods make a meaningful impact on children's health that lasts throughout life. JORGE VALENZUELA, SAVE THE CHILDREN There is a growing awareness in Spanish-speaking communities of the importance of prudent nutrition and of the disastrous Type-2 diabetes. I am working with John David Arnold, PhD, president of the League of United Latin American Countries (LULAC) and with Jorge Valenzuela, head of Save the Children and Mexico Executive Director, FIA, on these issues." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The Lessons of Lead While we still have an enormous amount to learn about how chemicals influence children's health, everything we do know "started with lead," said Dr. Phil Landrigan. "Lead has caused so much disease and so much misery in kids in this country and around the world. But what we learned from lead is that children are more vulnerable than adults, that much lower levels of poison can cause damage in them, compared with adults. We learned that the damage that lead causes is like an iceberg." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Until major health organizations reconsider their priorities and begin treating our children as individuals, we must remain vigilent and battle for our children's health every step of the way. In the meantime, you as a parent can take immediate action to protect your children from thimerosal and other contaminants in vaccines." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Two years later the Environmental Working Group tested umbilical cord blood from newborns and detected 287 synthetic chemicals, including 180 chemicals that are known to cause cancer in humans or animals, demonstrating that mothers are passing their body burdens of synthetic chemicals directly into their unborn children during gestation, with unpredictable consequences for their children's health later in life. All of this history, taken together, illustrates how and why we in the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Achieving this balance is the only way to fully ensure these children's health, and to spare them and their families from the suffering that asthma, allergies, autism, and ADHD so commonly inflict. Anju's Suffering Right after Priya was born, Anju had felt so electrified with the new feeling of maternal love that she couldn't wait to have another child. Even ministering to Priya's terrible problems had given Anju a sense of primal satisfaction. She liked taking care of people." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "By the end of the 1990s, when there was an explosion in the incidence of autism, many parents blamed it on the vaccinations, because their children's health had seemed to deteriorate shortly after they had been vaccinated. The type of autism that increased most dramatically in incidence during this time is known as regressive autism. Children with regressive autism have no apparent symptoms at birth, but begin to drastically deteriorate around the age of approximately eighteen months." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"That's the goal of this book: to teach you, the parent, how to take control of your children's health. Prevention should always be the focus of any health-care—and parenting—protocol. Minimizing the exposures that cause disease is much more effective, and less painful, than treating the disease after the fact. Dr. Phil Landrigan offered a parallel to the cost of cleaning up environmental disasters. "It makes a lot more sense to go upstream and to stop the pollution at its source. It's always cheaper to prevent the pollution in the first place than to clean it up afterward." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Parents who care about their children's health should not keep [processed-sugar beverages] at home."37 Dr. Willett's statement makes the point clearly: The profits made from the Culture of Death lifestyle are in direct conflict with our ability to care for our children and ourselves. The ability to love and care for our children and ourselves is a healthy characteristic of the Culture of Life. Do we choose life or do we choose death?" - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Follow with statements on how much better you have been feeling since eating properly, and comment on any change noticed in the children's health or behavior with the improved diet. Don't neglect an opportunity to point out to the children when a slip away from healthful eating results in direct negative physical discomfort, both in you ("Boy, that ice cream sure gave me a headache") and in them ("Johnny, see how you are acting since you've eaten that cake"). Remember to remove all artificially preserved, sweetened, and colored foods, then introduce a bit of raw food at each meal." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"If this marketing program weren't such a widespread threat to our children's health, it would be downright laughable that an industry group would try to peddle its food product under such a thinly-veiled "education" plan. Don't people wonder what's going on when almost every single children's book advertised in the "Nutrition Bookshelf portion of this Web site revolved around either milk, cheese or ice cream, with such titles as Ice Cream: Great Moments in Ice Cream History?9 After all, during July 2003 there were no vegetable books anywhere to be found on this "Nutrition Bookshelf!" - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"But she never wove together the threads of cosmetics, chemicals and children's health until a warm day in October 2000. The US Centers for Disease Control had just released new research from their study of the levels of toxic chemicals in the bodies of average 15 Americans. The CDC scientists found seven different types of phtha-lates — a set of industrial chemicals linked to birth defects in the male reproductive system — in 289 people tested. Every single person had dibutyl phthalate (DBP), the most toxic of the phthalates, in his or her body." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"They say: Schools need the money from soda sales Responses: • Schools should not be making a profit at the expense of children's health. • Children were not meant to fund their education with their own pocket change. • Coke and Pepsi make far more money than the schools do on exclusive pouring rights agreements, especially if you consider the amount per student. • Often, schools lose more money from the school lunch program than what they can make up in soda sales." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"A chemist might work to create a cheap polymer dye that was the perfect shade of crimson red, for instance, but he wasn't also making sure the dye was non-toxic, biodegradable and safe for children's health. Nobody was asking those questions. The government didn't require companies to ask those questions. Universities didn't require chemists to understand the biological and environmental impacts of the products they were creating. The majority of industrial chemicals were allowed onto the market with no safety testing to determine their health impacts." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Nobody can say what effect, if any, the chemicals will have on the children's health. Biomonitoring studies detect chemicals in people at extremely low levels, but they can't predict health effects. However, the studies show that toxic chemicals are turning up where they shouldn't be, at the most precarious of times — in the sacred space of the womb and during the most at-risk times of childhood development." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"This patronizing use of the term moms is quite popular among food-industry spokesmen and spokeswomen alike; apparentiy, for these executives, "dads" don't do any shopping or care about their children's health; and with all the time pressure that working mothers face these days, companies are happy to exploit this with fancy-labeled convenience foods." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "The Verdict Is In: Guilty as Charged Any lingering questions regarding the scientific connection between junk food marketing and children's health were put firmly to rest in late 2005 when a long-awaited report was released by the respected government advisory committee, the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The impressive five-hun-dred-page document—the collective effort of sixteen top-notch experts (including several from industry)—assessed the influence of food advertising directed at kids." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"The Truth about Children's Health: The Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Reversing Disease. Pri Publishing, 2003. Boden, Guenther, Karin Sargrad, Carol Homko, Maria Mozzoli, and T. Peter Stein. "Effect of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Appetite, Blood Glucose Levels, and Insulin Resistance in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes." Annals of Internal Medicine 142, no. 6 (2005): 403-11. Bowden, Jonny. Living the Low Carb Life. New York: Sterling, 2005. Brehm, B. J., R. J. Seeley, S. R. Daniels, and D. A. D'Alessio. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"In 2000, the US Congress passed the children's health Act, mandating its main research agency, the National Institutes of Health, to fund five centres of excellence into autism research. 'Here was an unprecedented political commitment to expand, intensify, and coordinate research into autism and services for children living with autism,' says Richard Horton, in his book MMR: Science and Fiction - Exploring a Vaccine Crisis.22 Or the government could have anticipated a steep rise in demand for individual vaccines, particularly against mumps." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Still, vaccines are given indiscriminately regardless of the children's health status. Many children at infancy don't even get the chance to be healthy later in life because they are pumped full of these poisons against which they are helpless. At this stage of development, a child has not yet acquired full natural immunity and has little ability to protect himself." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"In the wake of increasing criticism of sugary cereals, the company decided to portray itself as a champion of children's health with television ads dubbed "Choose Breakfast." Launched in June 2005, the campaign purports to "communicate the benefits of breakfast to children."6 But can a company that boasts such candy-branded products as Reese's Puffs really get away with this?" - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"It forces parents to choose between being the bad guy who says "no" in order to protect their children's health or giving in to junk-food demands to keep the peace. Analyses of food commercials aimed at children demonstrate that such advertising often promotes "antisocial" and "antiadult" behavior designed to make kids think they know more about what they are supposed to eat than their parents do. As a parent, your job is to set limits but you are up against an entire industry devoted to undermining your authority to do so." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The OCA addresses crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. Shop Natural www.shopnatural.com A resource for natural and organic products from nutritional and food products to personal care and pet care. Tom's of Maine www.tomsofmaine.com This company offers natural personal care products made without artificial or animal ingredients or chemicals. Wholesomebabyfood.com www.wholesomebabyfood." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

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