According to Dr. Alan Greene, two-thirds of high school students have either high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, predisposing them to a lifetime of chronic conditions. And a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control shows an eye-popping 265% increase in the rates of hospitalizations related...

Ever wonder what this food fiasco is costing us? You and me? Taxpayers? Well, the Economist recently assembled these jaw-dropping food safety stats in a "Farm to Fork" article in their October 9 issue:

1. There are 26,000 food poisoning cases per 100,000 Americans, every...

Today's headlines are enough to make any mother quake.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, autism rates have doubled. Research published this morning in the journal Pediatrics reveals that in the U.S. in 2007 about 1 in 91 children ages 3 to 17 were somewhere on the autism...

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a story that struck fear into the hearts of eaters across America: a young woman, stricken with E.coli, paralyzed after eating a burger.

There, by the grace of God, go any of us.

The New York Times report on flaws...

As highlighted by Kenneth Bock, MD, in the foreword of The Unhealthy Truth, "The landscape of children's health has changed. No longer can we assume that our children will have a healthy childhood -- certainly not in the face of the current epidemics of autism, ADHD, asthma and allergies,...

Financial panic has hit households across the country, as parents on budgets try to navigate the run up in food prices, gas prices, and health care costs.

According to The Economist, there has been a 62% increase in the price of food, making everything from milk to...

Today's headlines are enough to make any mother wary. As we battle our toddlers in the grocery store, we hardly have the energy left to decipher the headlines: Organics aren't healthier, death panels await health care reform, bankers receive record bonuses, swine flu pandemics swirl . What has...

In a world full of "don't"
Full of "shouldn't" and "won't"
It is easy to fear
When that's all that we hear.

But what if one day
When those naysayers say
"It is futile, no less"
You found courage for "Yes"?

As headlines swirl and climates whirl
And Wall Street finds its feet
There's one refrain that doesn't change
"Mommy, what's there to eat?"

Well listen child, I'll tell you what,
That's no small query there.
Come over here, and sit right down,
In fact,...

As headlines swirl, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the nation's food safety laws have an eerie similarity to the federal approach to safeguarding our citizens from exposure to toxic chemicals and toxic financial assets. If our federal aviation system were to adhere to the same loose, deregulated standards that...

Thank you, Michael Jackson...

I'm starting with the Man in the Mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways,
No message could have been any clearer,
If you want to make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself
And make that change....

Maggie Fox's poignant Reuters article today, "Americans Struggle to Pay HealthCare Costs," is compelling and speaks to the urgent need to help Americans care for their health (true "health care") with higher standards and increased funding at the FDA and personal measures like diet and nutrition.

The article...

Dear Michelle,

In these uncertain times, I am deeply grateful for the role that you are playing as Mother in Chief and want to express my heartfelt appreciation for the work that you are doing for our nation's 30 million children.

Today, American children suffer from a health crisis never...

A hot new trend among traders is betting on packages of energy and agricultural futures. Kind of like the bankers bet on subprime mortgages, traders recently invented Collateralized Commodity Obligations (or CCO's). They are like their subprime cousins, CDO's (collateralized debt obligations), only their performance is linked to rising commodity...

NOTE: On April 24,2009, the following comment was submitted about this article from a Research Associate at Duke University which employs Dr. Wesley Burks:

"The oral immunotherapy is done with peanut flour from peanuts grown and processed, not synthetically produced in a lab. it is a defatted flour which...

As W galloped out of office and Obama sashayed in, January's headlines were enough to make anyone utter: WTF?!

While we read about Blagojevich's hairbrush and the $1,400 trashcan purchased by Merrill Lynch's CEO, the Dow saw "its worst performance ever" posting its worst January in its 113 year...

As Pfizer swallowed Wyeth and Bank of America started belching up Merrill Lynch, you just might have missed the heartburn-inducing headline of the year: heavy metal has been found in our daily bread.

According to a report in Environmental Health by a former FDA scientist and whistleblower,...

We are a nation of 300 million eaters.

And anyone that eats can attest to the utter confusion that our food supply has become. As headlines swirl about beef recalls large enough to feed every American two hamburgers, baby formula laced with melamine, and controversial additives used to...

Whoa. What just happened? Does the end of 2008 at all resemble what we thought we knew twelve months ago?

In 2008, it seems that the world redefined itself. As the stock market fell, heroes like Michael Phelps and Dara Torres inspired us and new players like Sarah Palin...

Since when did it get so hard to be a mom? Ten years ago, we didn't worry about sending a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into school with our children; we didn't medicate our eight year olds to get them through the school day; and the movie Rain Man was...