Archive for October, 2007

Although the effects of bisphenol A are not understood as well as those of phthalates, there is enough evidence to raise an alarm. Some countries, like Japan, have already banned its use.
First devised as a sex hormone drug in 1936, chemists realized bisphenol A could be used to make polycarbonate in 1962.
Study – bisphenol A […]

I have written articles about lice alerting moms to the effects of pesticides in prescription and over-the-counter treatments on two occasions. I have seen it aggressively treated at my school in Jersey City, New Jersey. Even so, in all the years I have been a mother I have never had an intimate, first hand, in-my-own-home […]

When my husband travels for business he gets the opportunity to watch HBO in his hotel room. Recently he told me about an interesting scenario in the new HBO series Tell Me You Love Me. Evidently the couple in the throes of raising children has a daughter who gets her period for the first time […]

To be honest before I had my own children I didn’t think a whole lot about the environment. I blocked out the back-and-forth between environmental types and their critics. Then, after I had my first baby, the debate crept into my head. Glancing at old peeling paint or a slab of barbecued salmon, my mind […]