How does kids. pesticide exposure vary over the course of a year? To answer this question, Dr. Chensheng (Alex) Lu and colleagues at Emory University and the CDC followed a small group of suburban Washington children, aged 3 to 11, who ate a conventional suburban diet. They sampled their urine for evidence of organophosphate (OP) [...]

What Mom eats during pregnancy can help protect her children from asthma and allergies, according to a study released by Thorax in January 2008. In particular, elementary school kids whose mothers had followed a Mediterranean diet during their pregnancy were less likely to develop asthma or allergies. The peers of those fortunate children were about [...]

Washing the nasal passages with a saline solution is better than OTC cold meds both at treating and preventing common colds, according to a study published in the January 2008 Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. After describing this study, I.ll also discuss briefly the concern I.ve been asked about regarding preservatives in some saline [...]

In November 2007, Scott Haig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and medical columnist for TIME, wrote an article for the magazine called .When the Patient is a Googler.. He described a patient of his he called Susan, whom he felt was emblematic of patients who research important aspects of their own health issues (and background information [...]

Food trends are very interesting to watch and this trend is dear to my heart (and stomach). So what.s changed in organic since I started my journey? Here.s the short list:

Organic foods can be found in more places. When I started, I was very limited to .organic only. stores and a few [...]

Get ready for some surprising recommendations. Eczema, asthma, and food allergies are all on the rise in children, each having more than doubled in the last several decades. This rapid increase has lead to many differing recommendations on the timing and selection of foods offered to babies, to err on the side of caution before [...]