Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director & CEO
www.healthychild.org

After the CDC lowered the threshold at which a child is at risk for lead poisoning by half last week, the number of children under 6 who are now considered at risk jumped from 77,000 to 442,000,...

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director & CEO
Healthy Child Healthy World
www.healthychild.org

TIME raised a ruckus recently with a profile of "attachment parenting" guru Dr. Bill Sears, highlighted by a cover photo of a mother breastfeeding her 3-year-old son, according to the

The flame retardants' industry star witness lied in testimony that was "part of a decades-long campaign of deception that has loaded the furniture and electronics in American homes with pounds of toxic chemicals linked to cancer, neurological deficits, developmental problems and impaired fertility," according to the Chicago Tribune....

What causes autism? Dr. Phil Landrigan, professor and chair of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York and Honorary Board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, recently released a comprehensive list of environmental triggers, published in Environmental Health Perspectives and concisely presented in a slideshow on

by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO
Healthy Child Healthy World
www.healthychild.org

Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S's

Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving...

There was a time when doctors told pregnant mothers it was okay to smoke and drink alcohol because their babies were protected. Obviously, now we know otherwise -- but many women are still misinformed about the dangers of the common contaminants that their fetuses are exposed to. Last week, a...

With so many news stories that relate to children's environmental health lately, it's hard to keep up!

The FDA Rejects BPA Ban in Packaging

Late in the day last Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would not place a ban on BPA in packaging...

Cleaning used to be a simple thing. You learned what to use from your parents and bought the same products when you moved into your own house. But new reports just emerging may make you rethink choosing some of those brands.

Earlier this month, a report conducted by the Silent...

I remember the first time I saw someone breastfeed. I was 27 and had just gotten married. One of my best friends had her baby the same year. We all sat around marveling at this amazing little being she had created and when he started to fuss, she fed him....

I spent the past few weeks poring over the Healthy Child archives and I'm amazed at what I found. I knew this organization was powerful, but I didn't really comprehend the extent of our impact.

The reason my children's school has to notify me before spraying pesticides is thanks to...

The last thing you want to think about is whether toxic chemicals will prevent you from starting a family. But with rates of infertility on the rise and testosterone levels in decline, we may need to factor in chemical exposures to the future of our love lives.

Infertility...

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director/CEO
Healthy Child Healthy World
www.healthychild.org

Last week's findings of arsenic in organic brown rice syrup may be even more frightening to parents than last year's discovery of the cancer-causing substance in apple juice. That's because organic brown...

Last week Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Rachael Ray announced new nutrition standards for school lunches, the first major change in school meals in over 15 years.

The program allots an additional six cents per school lunch -- the first real increase in 30 years. The...

When is a salmon not a salmon? It sounds ridiculous, but that's one of the most important issues in the food world, where the gloves are off in the fight about genetically engineered foods.

Genetically engineered or modified foods -- known as GE foods or GMOs -- have been unnaturally...

Think the flame retardant Tris is a thing of the past? Think again. Last week the Washington Toxics Coalition and Safer States released a study that found 80 percent of new baby and children's products tested positive for chlorinated Tris (TDCPP), a chemical voluntarily removed from children's pajamas in the...

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director/CEO
Healthy Child Healthy World
www.healthychild.org

Last week, the news broke that Consumer Reports had found traces of arsenic in apple juice. Naturally, I was alarmed. Although we don't keep juice in the...

I'm so inspired by last week's Grist profile on Mari Rose Taruc, an environmental activist and a mother of two asthmatic kids who saw the connection between pesticides and health first hand when she emigrated from the Philippines to a farming community in central California, and...

I just tuned in to the webcast of last week's Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on the 2011 Safe Chemicals Act.

Scintillating stuff.

No, really. Healthy Child Healthy World has been pushing for chemical management reform for nearly 20 years. On a daily basis,...

I first heard the term "Generation Rx" in a speech given by Allergy Kids Foundation's Robyn O'Brien, a long-time supporter and now board member of Healthy Child Healthy World.

The idea is especially relevant this week, as I read about new study published in Pediatrics which focused...

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. At least that's the takeaway from a MediaPost story about an Advertising Week presentation last month, which referenced mothers' $2.3 trillion in spending power.

Yes, you read that right. That's trillion with a "t."