In 2000, many children's health advocates applauded Congress's decision to direct the NIH to study "the effects of both chronic and intermittent exposures on child health and human development." Law-makers specified that the exposures should be biological, chemical, physical and psychosocial, and that the study should address health disparities and...
(0) Comments | Posted May 16, 2012 | 8:01 AM
Healthy Child Healthy World was founded in memory of Colette Chuda 1986-1991
Prevention through education is worth more than cure
In 1991, two months after we lost our only child, Colette, age 5, to a cancer, we later proved...
(3) Comments | Posted April 27, 2012 | 11:18 AM
In July, Olivia will celebrate a long-awaited dream in Melbourne, Australia: the opening of a world-class Cancer & Wellness Centre dedicated to providing the very best in medical care and treatment, combined with global research programs for new treatments to help stop cancer from destroying the lives of so many...
(0) Comments | Posted April 18, 2012 | 4:00 PM
“If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.”
Jim Whittaker, phot0 credit: Dianne Whittaker
Next year marks the 5oth anniversary of the first...
(1) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 3:16 PM
The renowned pediatrician Dr. Harvey Karp calms and soothes using his 5S's method
Did you know that Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) can lead to...
(1) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 10:25 AM
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Her name was Chick
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It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Seeing Citizen Kane at The Hearst Castle was The Screening on Steroids.”
“Let's do it!” replied Steve Hearst the great grandson of William Randolph Hearst when Wendy...
(0) Comments | Posted March 9, 2012 | 11:38 AM
Rosebud
“San Simeon was the place God would have built–if he had the money.”
In 1941, the lights dimmed at La Questa Encantada when the movie
(0) Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | 1:08 PM
This year Healthy Child Healthy World is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. We have much to be proud of and grateful for beginning with the everlasting memory of a little girl whose short life, only five years, was for a greater purpose.
In 1991, Jim and I...
(0) Comments | Posted February 26, 2012 | 5:27 PM
Lead in her Lipstick? Not Meryl! Not in real life. But as Margaret Thatcher it seems to fit the character.
According to a new FDA study, the media highlighted a federal analysis revealing that approximately 400 shades of popular lipsticks contained trace amounts of lead. Of the top...
(2) Comments | Posted February 21, 2012 | 1:13 PM
"I have some concerns," was Tyler Perry's remark back at host Gayle King this morning on CBS This Morning as he teased her discerning etiquette while she took time to tout Perry's performance in his new movie, Good Deeds. But Gayle couldn't say enough about Tyler's best deed...
(2) Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | 10:21 AM
It seems that most parenting books are written by big name brands. Doctors who gravitate towards and write about an issue that becomes polarizing, like whether or not vaccines are safe and if not can they lead or contribute to the rise in autism?
Or other books written by "celeb...
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As 2011 comes to an end, I feel a somberness lying heavy on the world. Christmas and the lights of all religions, seem to have finally dimmed for me under those timeless shadows of greed, separateness and man's inhumanity to man.
I am a child of the sixties. I reveled...
(0) Comments | Posted September 7, 2011 | 12:45 PM
Kelle Groom's nonfiction memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Free Press), is a tidal wave of emotions wrapped in heart-shaped box -- a keepsake for all time.
At the age of fifteen, Kelle Groom found that alcohol allowed her to connect with people...
(0) Comments | Posted March 17, 2011 | 12:10 PM
As children, we are curious, naïve and trusting of our surroundings. We have limited defenses and little or no awareness of evils that may permeate the environment. At the age of four, Colette was unaware of the toxins and chemicals around her that ultimately led to a diagnosis of Wilm's...
(1) Comments | Posted March 9, 2011 | 5:00 PM
While amping up for this year's Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, CA and getting the LuxEco team ready for our "Green Light" Initiative in which we search out and...
(2) Comments | Posted February 24, 2011 | 1:39 PM
President Obama's State of the Union address did not include what I consider the essential principles for living a vibrant and healthy life. Here are nine objectives for sustainable living that nurture and foster human happiness and, more importantly, make time to enjoy life:
(2) Comments | Posted February 11, 2011 | 1:00 PM
On the eve of President Reagan's 100th birthday last week, images of the Berlin Wall coming down gave truth to the words, peaceful coexistence and captured global attention at time when change meant everything to Germany's youth and the world.
Dismantling the powerful overthrow of a thirty-year dynasty would seem...
(0) Comments | Posted May 21, 2012 | 1:04 PM