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Third-Hand Smoke Harming Kids

Smokers-and your children--beware. Even though you may smoke outside, or roll down the window to let in fresh air when you're smoking in the car, toxins remain in your hair and on your clothes that can ultimately poison your kids. Sound scary? well, ...

Diplomats set new safety standards for formula, nuts and gluten

Diplomats in Geneva recently set new limits on the amount of certain kinds of bacteria allowable in baby formula as well as the level of natural toxins in some types of nuts. They also tackled the amount of gluten permissible in products labeled ...

Jenny's son teaches Jim how to love

Can a child teach an adult how to love? Well, I'd wager there is a lot we can learn from our children. I think Jim Carrey would agree. In a recent interview Jim claims that Jenny McCarthy's son, Evan, taught him how to love. Jim says the ...

Feeling queasy? Scientists have a new theory about morning sickness

When I was pregnant with my first baby, I had horrible morning sickness. The only thing that settled my stomach was Tim's Cascade brand salt and vinegar potato chips. I ate them with every meal, three or four after my cereal or my sandwich or my ...

Reebok to pay $1 million penalty for lead paint violation

Blaming China for all the lead-contaminated products they send to the U.S. is fair, I think. After all, they made the stuff, right? But what about the U.S. companies they make it for? The Consumer Product Safety Commission has promised to make these ...

Nail polish for pregnant moms

Gosh, I need a manicure. Since like, at least a few months before I got pregnant--the first time. Between getting pregnant, being pregnant, breastfeeding, getting freaked out by everything I've read about toxins in nail polish and getting pregnant ...

Baby bottles toxic?

Before I even thought about what feeding apparatus other than the breast I might offer my son I started hearing about possible toxins in baby bottles. Glass bottles I heard, once a thing of the past found mostly in antique stores, were making a ...

Possible Curious George recall coming

Curious George, that loveable, bubbly monkey, may have gotten himself in a different kind of pickle. Marvel Enterprises has stopped shipping Chinese-made Curious George products and may be issuing a recall in the near future, if an independent ...

Product Recall: Children's Divine Inspiration Charm Bracelets

Buy-Rite Designs Inc., of Freehold, New Jersey, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is voluntarily recalling their Divine Inspiration Charm Bracelets. It seems that these crosses are just too much to bear -- they contain too ...

Product Recall: TOBY & ME Jewelry Sets

TOBY N.Y.C., of New York, New York, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is voluntarily recalling their TOBY & ME Jewelry Sets. Can you guess why? Yep. "The recalled metal jewelry sets contain high levels of lead. Lead is ...

Nail polish and pregnancy

Recently a newly pregnant pal of mine took the day off from work to pamper herself. As a new mommy with little time for such things these days I heartily agreed she should get the time for herself in while she was able. She decided to get a ...

Pregnant Mom's smoke can cause psychological problems?

It's no secret that cigarette smoking can cause a plethora of physical health problems for parents and the kids who get too close to their second-hand toxins, but a new study says that Mom's smoking can also cause psychological problems for kids. A ...

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