Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Let’s Focus On Prevention

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and it really strikes an emotional chord with us here at Healthy Child. Our organization began after five-year-old Colette Chuda died of a rare … [Read more...]

Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org A recent study in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine got me thinking about perceptions—and misconceptions—when it comes to water. According to the study, … [Read more...]

All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe

You know how with some songs you can’t get the lyrics out of your head? That’s what I’m doing right now. Every time I read another breaking news story on clean air I hear, “All that I need is the air that I breathe/And to love you.” (Sorry if now you’re doing it, too.) But it’s … [Read more...]

What Are The Best Apps For Healthy Homes & Parenting?

by Stephanie Phoenix, Social Media Apprentice, Healthy Child Healthy World Smart phones are nothing if not useful. And in this day and age, most parents have one (and often a tablet, too). If we’re going to have these know-it-all devices, we might as well put them to work for … [Read more...]

BPA is not “M’m mm good”

By Janelle Sorensen, Chief Communications Officer, Healthy Child Healthy World Do you eat Campbell’s? Then you’re eating BPA. BPA is used in virtually all canned food and beverage linings, but it’s been linked to breast cancer, male sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular … [Read more...]