In a perfect world, we’d all have time to grow our own organic vegetable garden. But if you’re like me, and you’ve got picky eaters, no time and a limited budget, here are a few suggestions that I recently discussed on Good Morning America. Feel free to click on www.drgreene.com and www.AllergyKids.com to learn more:
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As the population gets sicker, including our kids, the laundry list of chronic conditions grows - diabetes, asthma, allergies and ADHD. On top of that, the cost of health care continues to climb.
Since 2001, the health premiums for a family of four have doubled; health premiums are expected to surge another 6 percent in 2009; [...]

Today, 1 in 3 American children has autism, allergies, ADHD or asthma.
What is driving these childhood epidemics? Ten years ago, we didn’t have this problem. Today, however, some pediatric specialists view our children as "canaries in the coalmine". So what has changed?
According to our brilliant friends at DrGreene.com, The Organic Center, Healthy Child Healthy World [...]

I was raised on capitalism and the Wall Street Journal. And I trusted that the political values that my family had instilled in me would serve me well. I believed in the system.
And then one of my children got sick with a blood condition that no one could pronounce and a pediatric mandate requiring immediate [...]

Since when did it get so hard to be a mom? Ten years ago, we didn’t worry about sending a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into school with our children; we didn’t medicate our eight year olds to get them through the school day; and the movie, Rain Man, was all we knew of autism. [...]

Most parents of multiples agree that each year with twins become exponentially easier. I can personally attest to that fact now that my twins are two years old.
I once met a mother of twins who was an anomaly. She told me that things only get harder with time. I wanted to ask her, “Why would [...]

There’s no question about it—caring for twins is hard work. In addition to the physical demands, there are unique challenges that you simply don’t encounter with singletons, like how to identify similar-looking twins, how to feed two hungry babies at the same time, and how to calm two crying babies at once.
That being said, there [...]

Faith and Hope were born at 33 weeks and both initially required care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Ironically Hope, the smaller twin that we worried about throughout the pregnancy, turned out to have no major problems. She stayed in the NICU mainly to learn to feed and to grow. Faith, on the [...]

No two pregnancies are alike. This is especially true for pregnancy with twins.
During my pregnancy with Faith and Hope, I experienced a number of pregnancy complications. I had vaginal bleeding and pregnancy-associated diabetes. In my third trimester, I was forced to go on bed rest due to a shortening cervix (a risk factor for preterm [...]

Throughout history, twins have always attracted a certain degree of attention and curiosity. Recently, high profile Hollywood mothers of multiples, like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez, have catapulted public interest in twins to a whole new level.
People often ask me what it’s like to be a mother to twins. In this five part series, I [...]