For Colette- The Flower That Shattered The Stone
By Nancy Chuda, Founder of LuxEcoLiving.com
Tonight, Jim and I were guests on "Toxic Childood" a CNN special report hosted by Sanja Gupta MD.
For the...
Healthy Child Healthy World Takes Center Court for Championing Children’s Health
By Nancy Chuda founder of Healthy Child Healthy World and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving
The Hamptons, Long Island New York, Los Angeles and Santa...
Olivia Newton John’s Summer Nights Concert in Vegas is a Major Hit
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
Backstage at The Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas Nevada
She sings with...
The 5 Worst Ingredients in Kids’ Body Care Products
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group, www.healthychild.org.
From shampoo to toothpaste, sunscreen and lotion, the...
Celebrating Eco-Dads This Father’s Day with Christopher Gavigan of Healthy Child Healthy World
By Christopher Gavigan, CEO and Executive Director of Healthy Child Healthy World and LuxEco Advocate
Interview Conducted By Nancy Chuda, Founder of LuxEco Living and...
A Cancer Victim Finds A Canine Cure
Cancer Patient’s Best Friend
By SULEIKA JAOUAD reposted from The New York Times Blog
Suleika Jaouad writes about her experiences as a young adult with cancer.
When...
Five Things You Don’t Know Your Kids Are Eating
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group
www.healthychild.org.
As parents, we do the best we can...
An Angel’s Skin
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
For most people the diagnosis of cancer is a daunting...
5 Questions You Should Ask Your Child’s School
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group, www.healthychild.org.
When choosing the right school for their children,...
Healthy Child Healthy World: Empowering Parents To Make Safer Choices
By Nancy and James Chuda, founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
Dr. Bojana Jankovic,
Celebrating 23 years at the fabulous Montage Hotel in Beverly...
As TSCA Collapses, Penelope Jagessar Chaffer and Her “Toxic Baby” Fight Back
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
"Isn't it wonderful that none of us need wait a moment before starting to change the world," Penelope Jagessar Chaffer quoted from the Diary of Anne Frank after Nancy Chuda (Healthy Child Healthy World and LuxEco co-founder) presented her with the HCHW Moms-on-a-Mission honor for inspiration Wednesday night. Penelope is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the first black female director to receive a BAFTA award nomination. Above all, however, she is a mother, proven by her dedication to complete her most recent documentary, Toxic Baby, despite the adversity that arose in the process. In accord with Anne Frank’s legacy, she waited not a moment before embarking on her five-year journey to make this film and thus start to change the world, one mother at a time.
Healthy Snacks for Hungry Kids
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World, and Dawn Undurraga, Nutritionist, Environmental Working Group
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group
www.healthychild.org.
Your kids rush home...
Dr. Harvey Karp’s healthy and natural technique to calm crying babies saves lives
Did you know that Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) can lead to early death?
Laundry Pods Are a Serious Danger to Children
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group
www.healthychild.org.
Those small, attractive objects in many families’ laundry...
Beauty’s Big Secret: Hidden Toxins in Fragrance
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article entitled “Fragrance Chemicals and the Scent of Suspicion,” the fragrance industry has been keeping vital chemical information from the public. The article says two recent reports, one by the EWG and one by Women’s Voices for the Earth, have caused a stir amongst researchers, environmental groups, consumers, and industry legislation. These reports reveal that on the label of any given personal care product, bottle of perfume, or cleaning agent the word “fragrance” is loaded with unknown meaning. Manufacturers have used this one word, a nondescript listing among the other ingredients, as a catch-all to legally mask the dozen-or-more chemicals not actually listed.
Star Bright, Star Bright…
...I Wish For Safe Toys Tonight!
My last trip to Toys R' Us was disturbing on several levels. Not having kids of my own, I...
Michelle Obama and Childhood Obesity
By Bethany Colson, Managing Editor of LuxEcoLiving.com
According to the US government, One third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives; many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and asthma. A recent study put the health care costs of obesity-related diseases at $147 billion per year. With rates having tripled over the last three decades and with millions effected and the percentage of obese or overweight children at or above 30% in 30 states, the childhood obesity epidemic shows no slowing in site... YET.
Enter First Lady Michelle Obama.
The Goal: Through nutrition education, healthy food alternatives, physical fitness and a coordinated effort between public, private and non-private sector, the challenge of childhood obesity will be solved within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight.
Parenting for Peace by Marcy Axness, PhD: A Book Review
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World.
It...
The Poisoning of our Planet: A Dog’s Lifesaving Journey Helps Save Lives
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
We had a terrible scare!!! Journey, our 18 month old adopted yellow...
The Trouble with Disinfecting Wipes
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group
www.healthychild.org
They’re cheap, appealing and easy to find. They...
Suzi Amis Cameron’s Muse Elementary School Visits The Green Home Under The H
By Nancy Chuda, Founder of LuxEco Living and Healthy Child Healthy World
I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do...
Autism is America’s Fastest Growing Disability for Children
An introduction by Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEco Living and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World.
In the last two decades, Healthy Child Healthy World has sounded many alarms to awaken parents to the prevailing problems of chemicals in our environment. With an influx of untested chemicals in commerce, coupled by a regulatory system that is stymied by scientific knowledge, the time is now for a complete overhaul of the laws which permit the inhumane testing of chemicals in our air, water and food which affect our most vulnerable citizens. Children are suffering due to these exposures and their health and life expectancy is being altered by an inept system of governance which supplies the demand for agriculture and consumer products without oversight. Years ago, many of us testified in Congress to prevail upon
Healthy Child Healthy Pet: Common Pet Treatments Can Harm Young Children
By Nancy Chuda, co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World, and Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental...
Action For Healthy Kids
Action For Healthy Kids
Remember the watershed moment when you first learned about the dangers of pesticides in your food or the toxic chemicals in...
Federal Agencies Investigate Safety of Crumb Rubber on Playgrounds
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group
www.healthychild.org
Three U.S. government agencies have teamed up to...
The Truth Behind “Organic” Cosmetics
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group
www.healthychild.org
When it comes to food, we know what...
Healthy Child Healthy Pet: What Do Pets And Kids Have In Common?
By Nancy Chuda founder of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
In 1991, we lost our only child to a rare non-hereditary...
How to Beat Insomnia Naturally
by Lori Alper, Founder, Groovy Green Livin'
Courtesy of Healthy Child Healthy World
After the birth of my third child I suffered from insomnia that ...
A Tribute to Dr. Stanley Greenspan
By: Emily Lynne Ion via Heathy Child Healthy World on Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Today, the Healthy Child family is mourning the loss of an...
Michelle Obama Urges Restaurant Industry To Change For Kids
By Kerin Van Hoosear, LuxEco Editorial Assistant and author of Seasonal Cooking with Kerin
Did you know that most kids’ meals in restaurants have twice as many calories as the meal you’d serve them at home? Not only are the majority of these meals laden with saturated fat and salt, but some even reach a whopping 1,000 calories! Such a meal is high in calories for an adult, and for a child that’s just ridiculous.
Find a Pediatrician Who Shares Your Environmental Health Concerns
By: Janelle Sorensen, courtesy of Healthy Child Healthy World
Looking for a pediatrician is no easy task, especially if your concerns and parenting methods aren’t exactly the same as mainstream America. My husband and I scoured the city for a full year before finding the right one for our daughters. But, it totally paid off.
We found an amazingly supportive and brilliant pediatrician whose philosophy was to tell us everything she knew and then let us choose what to do. She had only one provision; if she ever thought the results of a treatment were sub-par, then she would intervene with an alternate recommendation. That never happened and I was always overwhelmed with how much she knew. She could rattle off statistics about best practices in the EU, pertinent studies regarding alternative remedies, and recent outbreaks that could put my children at risk. She was a dream come true. But, alas, we moved. Now we are on the hunt again.
Chemical Creepers: A New Light Shed On Sunscreen
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Imagine if the very thing you used and depended on to protect you from skin cancer was capable of exacerbating the growth of epidermal lesions and tumors. Well that’s what the Environmental Working Group claims may be the case. A recent study shows that retinyl palmitate, a synthetic form of vitamin A, is carcinogenic on skin exposed to the sun.
Feeding Infants While Flying
By Megan Boyle, Editorial Director, Healthy Child Healthy World
Reproduced with the permission of the Environmental Working Group, www.healthychild.org.
For parents, feeding a new baby can feel...
Fighting Pesticides and Toxins for Family Health
By Rachel Sarnoff, Interim Executive Director, Healthy Child Healthy World, Founder of EcoStiletto and LuxEco Living Advocate
Steep yourself in information about rates spiking to epidemic proportions in childhood autism, asthma, cancer and more, and you’re bound to become a maternal hypochondriac.....At this point, I must sound like a broken record. But believe me when I tell you that the more I learn about the connection between a child’s environment and his or her health, the more I understand how incredibly high the stakes have come to be.
This is about our children. It’s about their right to breathe. It’s about their right to live. It’s about doing everything that we can to prevent the nightmares that Nancy, Jim and Christine endured.
If this is what we’re fighting for, I’m all in.
