By Barbara Sobel. We all want to serve our families healthy meals, but what does healthy eating really mean? The one thing most health experts agree upon is that eating at home is usually a healthier option than eating out. When we eat home cooked meals, we have control over the foods we eat. It […]
View Post Children's Health, Farm to Table, Kids and Food, organic foodBy Christina Wyle. I have often wondered whether pollutants in the environment contributed to my family’s deadly health history. My mom died of lung cancer at the age of 56, my father died of a blood disease thought to be caused by benzene at 72, and my youngest sister was diagnosed with stage 4 breast […]
View Post Breast Cancer, Children's Health, Environmental Health, Green Chemistry, SustainabilityIn my house growing up, Thanksgiving centered on football and a huge family meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, pumpkin pie, and of course, the cranberry sauce that retained the shape of the can. It’s easy to forget that historically, Thanksgiving began as a tradition of celebrating the harvest of the year. It’s a […]
View Post BPA, Children's Health, ThanksgivingThe issue of low-level exposure to arsenic has been in the news recently. The discovery that brown rice syrup (even when free of pesticides) had significant levels of arsenic alarmed users of baby formula containing brown rice syrup, and energy bars with the ingredient. While one baby formula company determined to sell safe formula is […]
View Post arsenic, Children's HealthMOMS Advocating Sustainability (MOMAS) supports voting YES on Proposition 37 for the upcoming election on Tuesday, November 6th. Proposition 37 requires companies to put a label on their food product if genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) are used in the ingredients. It comes down to giving the consumer the opportunity to make an informed decision about […]
View Post Children's Health, GMO, pesticides, Prop 37With the increasing information about the likely risks of eating genetically modified foods, many parents and caretakers are confused about how to avoid them in their children’s diets. I’ll admit it, it is very tough. GMOs are riddled throughout the country’s food supply as well as our grocery store shelves. The main culprits are corn, […]
View Post candy, Children's Health, GMO, Halloween, organic foodRemember the state’s 2007 proposal to spray pesticides out of airplanes onto ten million people in an attempt to kill the apple moth, an insect that scientists say has been in California for decades and has never done significant crop damage? Four local moms quickly took action and formed MOMAS (formerly, Mothers of Marin Against […]
View Post Children's Health, Environmental Health, Light Brown Apple Moth, pesticides