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...
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...
Chemicals Are Stealing Our Children’s Future
By Nancy Chuda, Co-Founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World.
This Earth Day, April 22, 2010, marks the 19th anniversary of the passing of...
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...
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...
Google knows we just need those eggs!
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Saying goodbye to a feathered friend
We lost her yesterday. It...
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...
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...
Community Gardening With Common Ground
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” In the 1970s, several senators began to recognize a literal truth behind this Chinese proverb. They realized the importance of teaching the man how to provide his own food source. When the government grasped the self-sufficiency and power of being able to fish, or in this case garden, they began granting $100,000 per year to gardening programs. This evolved to $100,000 to each of 20 metro areas around the United States, one of them being Los Angeles.
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.
CDC Panel Recommends Lower Threshold for Childhood Lead Poisoning
By Lorri Ballance Laird, Writer and LuxEcoLiving Advocate
Since 1978, lead paint has been banned in the United States. But even today, in 2012, the...
Moms on a Mission Protect Children’s Health
Sweet Charity for a Mom with a Mission: Health Child Healthy World Arms Parents with Information about Environmental and Chemical Pollutants
By Nancy Chuda Founder...











