In a study recently released, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services claims there is a strong link between IgE food allergies and obesity in children. The study included national data from 4,111 children ages 2-19 and found that obese children were 59% more likely to have IgE mediated food allergies than children of normal weight. …read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘Children’
National Study Links Childhood Obesity with Food Allergies
May 10th, 2009 by Caryn Talty | 814 views |
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Vaccinomics may greatly reduce vaccine injuries
April 5th, 2009 by Caryn Talty | 1,247 views |Be the first to comment on this article! »
Doctors at Mayo Clinic have developed a new field of research called vaccinomics.
They hope to utilize gene testing to find out which patients are most at risk of getting a particular disease and who will benefit from the vaccine. This topic is one of several that will be discussed at the Ninth Annual World Vaccine Congress that will be held April 20-23 in Washington D.C. …read the rest of this entry »
Web-based Search Tool that Finds Foods & Candies Without Synthetic Dyes
February 18th, 2009 by Caryn Talty | 609 views |Be the first to comment on this article! »
As the Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Food and Health Program Dr. David Wallinga is pleased to announce a brand new web-based Brain Food SelectorTM. It is a database that will help the average person easily find foods containing synthetic dyes.
Consumers will now be able to search by brand, product type, or specific food dye. The IATP’s Smart Guide to Food Dyes also describes why synthetic food dyes are used, gives valuable information about associated children’s health concerns and offers things parents can do to avoid buying products laced with these dyes. …read the rest of this entry »
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is holding a free Fair in Chicago
February 3rd, 2009 by Caryn Talty | 479 views |Be the first to comment on this article! »
The AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal, Science, will be hosting their annual meeting in Chicago this year.
It is a great opportunity for area families to teach their kids about Earth sciences: past, present, and future. And most importantly, many of the sessions are free on Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th: plenary sessions, topical lectures, Family Science Days, the Main Exhibit Hall, Wizardry With Light: Freeze, Teleport and Go! and Harnessing the Sun and Oceans to Meet the World’s Energy Demands. Participants should be aware that in order to attend the lectures listed on the website as free they will have to register as either a student or a teacher that day and pay a fee anywhere from $90-$200. Family activities on the specified family days are free to the public and do not require registration. …read the rest of this entry »
Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking Philosophy Transforms Schools in the U.K.
January 29th, 2009 by Caryn Talty | 1,029 views |Be the first to comment on this article! »
Edward de Bono, author of Teach Your Child How to Think, has been in despair over the state of education in the U.K. for decades. He’s the man who invented the phrase, ‘lateral thinking’ and is adament that the British education system is “wasting two-thirds of the talent in society.”
His answer to this educational dilemma can be found in the world’s first university-based Centre of Serious Creativity and Constructive Thinking at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Crewe campus. It is the largest University for educators in Europe and plans have already been made to turn it into a hub for educating professionals De Bono’s concepts in four-day crash courses. …read the rest of this entry »
Joel Stein of the L.A. Times Insults Parents of Allergic Children
January 18th, 2009 by Caryn Talty | 1,865 views |Be the first to comment on this article! »
Some reporters just don’t get it. Joel Stein is on that list. On Jan. 9th he posted a commentary at the L.A. Times that would make any parent of a child with allergies skin crawl. Perhaps he was trying to be funny.
It unnerves me that people with media power would abuse it such a reckless way. Folks may read Joel Stein’s piece and think it is perfectly okay to feed your child with allergies the forbidden food because the child’s problem is not his digestive system but a ‘yuppie rich phenomena” that his parents have bought into. …read the rest of this entry »
A Candid Phone call with a Vaccine Manufacturer
November 18th, 2008 by Caryn Talty | 380 views |4 Comments »
Above is a phone call that has been uploaded to You Tube and is circulating the internet through various email groups. The caller never identified himself other than by his user name, “greenourvaccines”. He also never revealed the vaccine manufacturer he interviewed. It would be hard to assume which manufacturer this is because at this time 80% of flu vaccines administered in America contain thimerosal, a form of mercury.
