I’m thrilled to be working with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and my partners, 3 Green Angels, to launch a educational push called the Story of Cosmetics today. We’ll be hosting a special Twitter party tonight at 8pm CST (using the hashtag #ecowed) to talk about the products we use, learn what’s really in them, [...]
I’ve really been looking forward to CNN’s “Toxic America.” I just hopped onto their website to take a look at the helpful list of resources and was shocked to learn that my home state of Kansas is plagued by Trichloroethylene. In fact, we are exposed to more TCE than any other state in the whole [...]
I just finished reading Slow Death by Rubber Duck, the story two concerned men hoping to shed light on everyday toxic chemical exposure by experimenting on themselves. They focus on a new kind of pollution. We’re not looking for external evidence in factory smoke stacks and slimy rivers; we’re talking about insidious, internal pollution. A [...]
Unborn baby girls exposed to bisphenol-a can suffer permanent uterine changes that may eventually result in cancer. The process is thought to occur through alterations in their DNA. The findings by researchers at Yale School of Medicine were reported in the March issue of Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB [...]
Last week we talked about the basics of a group of endocrine-disrupting chemicals called obesogens. The whole thing sounded pretty bleak, but I promised to bring you some good news, so here we go! I had the opportunity to interview Steve Perrine, author of The New American Diet, Editor of Children’s Health and Editor-at-Large for [...]
If you’ve been reading our blog for even a little while, you’ve heard terms like “hormone-mimicking” and “endocrine-disrupting” more than you probably care to admit. And now I’m throwing another one at you. What are obesogens and where are they found? The term “obesogen” was recently coined in 2009 by researchers to describe the known [...]
