As more and more research is done on our environment, the more we learn about its effects on our children. Find out more about this important issue and how you can take action.

The Environment and Your Health

• Are Learning Disabilities Linked to Environmental Toxins? 
• Out of Harm's Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child Development, Part I
• Out of Harm's Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child Development, Part II
• Environmental Influences on Learning Disabilities
• EPA: Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminents 
• FDA: Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products 

Environmental Health Links

• Centeres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Health
• Harvard School Of Public Health (HSPH), Dept. of Environmental Health
• Mass Health and Human Services (MHHS), Bureau of Environmental Health
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), For Consumers and Patients 
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), For Health Professionals 
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), For Scientists & Researchers 
• FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition - CFSAN/FDA
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Report on the Environment 

Environmental Toxins in the news

• What's in your children's jewelry?
      When we go into a store and purchase a product, especially a product for children, we would like to believe that someone has made sure that it is safe.
• New study finds toxic chemicals in hundreds of consumer products.
      Toxic chemicals linked to the rising rates of endocrine disruption related disease on the rise were found in a broad array of consumer products and reported in a peer reviewed article in Environmental Health Perspectives today. 
• Real Cost of Dental Mercury. 
      Dental mercury fillings pollute the environment, contaminate fish and are far more costly for taxpayers than the alternative tooth-colored material, according to an economics report released by MPP and a broad coalition of health, consumer and environmental groups.
• Removing Heavy Metals from the Body Is "Dangerous"? 
      The American  College of Medical Toxicology held a conference at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this past February about the "use and misuse" of chelation therapy—a misleading title suggesting some semblance of scientific objectivity, which was nowhere in evidence.
• When It Comes to Natural Health for Children, We're Living in a Police State.   
       Increasingly, state governments are determining what treatments a child can and cannot have—regardless of parents' wishes. Three shocking stories prove the point.
• Scientists find higher concentrations of heavy metals in post-oil spill oysters from Gulf of Mexico
      As the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico approaches, a team of scientists led by Dr. Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences has detected evidence that pollutants from the oil have entered the ecosystem's food chain.