Piggy Paints: Safer Polish for your Little Girl

"Natural as Mud" is the company logo and while I'm not sure I would lump this into the same category as mud, my girls will be finding this nail polish in their Christmas Stockings. "Imagine a nail polish that is designed especially for those precious little girls in your life. … [Read more...]

New Study: Inner City Children Residing in Green Neighborhoods Grow Up Healther

Inner city kids have it hard for a variety of reasons. From poverty to low performing schools, these children often suffer from poor diets and nature deficit disorder. A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found that greener (i.e. vegetation in … [Read more...]

New Study Suggests Link Between Hairspray Exposure and Genital Birth Defect

Women exposed to hairspray in the workplace in their first trimester of their pregnancy have more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health … [Read more...]

Is it Safe to Eat Snow?

Well, it happened. The first snowfall of THE SEASON. As we nestle into our new home in Ontario, we must face the fact that winter Tis the season more often than Tis not. Ditto for the white stuff, which will soon become brown stuff as everyone likes to remind me. Though … [Read more...]

Holy S#@T: There’s BPA in my Recycled Toilet Paper

It seems the bad news about BPA never ceases! From canned foods to pacifiers, this hormone disrupting chemical has been a cause for concern ignored by the FDA. Today, I was shocked to read on Z Recommends that there is BPA in our wastewater and tap water! The source … [Read more...]