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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’
- Home & Family, Featured
- November 18, 2024
“I can’t underscore just how powerful it is to have a few moments of authentic interaction with somebody where you can hear their voice and see their face. There is tremendous benefit that comes to each of us from being able to show up for each other.” Dr. Murphy has even previously cited loneliness as an epidemic in our society.
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Baby Walkers Have Caused Injuries and Deaths—So Why Are They Banned in Canada But Not in the U.S.?
- Consumer Alerts, Featured, Home & Family
- October 15, 2024
Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) favors a ban on the manufacture and sale of sit-in baby walkers—maintaining they don’t help, but hurt infants learning to walk?
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Toxic chemicals used in food preparation leach into human bodies, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- September 19, 2024
“We’ve got, say, 60 years of research into the migration of chemicals into food from food processing and packaging equipment. It’s been studied very extensively.”
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Nearly two-thirds of supermarket baby foods are unhealthy, study finds
- Home & Family, Featured
- August 23, 2024
Don’t count on the baby food aisle at your local supermarket to provide healthy nutritious foods for your child. That’s the takeaway of a new study.
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Fluoride exposure during pregnancy linked to increased risk of childhood neurobehavioral problems, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- May 24, 2024
“There are no known benefits to the fetus from ingesting fluoride. And yet now we have several studies conducted in North America suggesting that there may be a pretty significant risk to the developing brain during that time.” That’s the findings of researchers at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.
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No TikTok? No problem. Here’s why you shouldn’t rush to buy your child a phone.
- Home & Family, Featured
- May 24, 2024
Carli Pierson writing in USA Today with some thoughtful advice to parents: “Phones and kids should be an ongoing conversation in our homes. We should be talking about the dangers of addiction. We need to teach them that obsessing over other people’s lives, or comparing themselves with another person they may or may not know,
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Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- March 1, 2024
CNN: “Eating ultraprocessed foods raises the risk of developing or dying from dozens of adverse health conditions, according to a new review of 45 meta-analyses on almost 10 million people.”
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Cannabis use associated with higher risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- March 1, 2024
CBS News: “Cannabis use — whether smoked, eaten or vaporized — is associated with a higher number of adverse cardiovascular outcomes, according to a new study.”
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Death by junk food? Ultra-processed foods becoming the new ‘silent killer’
- Featured
- February 26, 2024
Study Finds: “Medical professionals are raising the alarm over a ‘silent killer’ that has infiltrated American society — ultra-processed foods. In a new study, physicians from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine are shining a light on the perils of these foods and the urgent need for a dietary shift.
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Study: US health costs related to chemicals in plastics reached $250 billion in 2018
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 15, 2024
“Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in plastics pose a serious threat to public health and cost the U.S. an estimated $250 billion in increased health care costs in 2018, according to new research published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The paper is titled ‘Chemicals Used in Plastic Materials: An Estimate of the Attributable Disease Burden and Costs in the US.'”
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Scientists find about a quarter-million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 11, 2024
NBC News: “The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers.”
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Never Again Should There Be a 9/11
- GOOD FOR YOU by Claire Carter, Featured
- September 6, 2023
Remembering and honoring all those who died, all those who survived, and all those whose lives will never be the same. We came together then. Can we prevent a horrific act like this from happening again?
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Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do, study finds
- Health & Healing, Featured
- September 5, 2023
NBC News: Some paper and bamboo straws contain so-called “forever chemicals” that could make them a less-than-ideal alternative to plastic, researchers have found.
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Screen-time warning: Toddlers given tablets, phones to play with can suffer lasting brain damage
- Featured, Home & Family
- September 5, 2023
“Sitting toddlers down in front of a screen all day can do lasting damage to their brains, a new study warns. Scientists in Singapore add that the harm to screen-watching infants persists into late childhood, even beyond the age of eight.
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U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is “almost certainly” making them sick
- Featured, Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
CBS News: “Europe is famous for its bread. But there’s one ingredient conspicuously missing: Potassium bromate. It’s a suspected carcinogen that’s banned for human consumption in Europe, China and India, but not in the United States…It’s not just potassium bromate. A range of other chemicals and substances banned in Europe over health concerns are also permitted in the U.S., including Titanium dioxide (also known as E171); Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) (E443); Potassium bromate (E924); Azodicarbonamide (E927a) and Propylparaben (E217).”
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