While I love having great resources for recovering from sickness, I’m a huge proponent of avoiding getting sick in the first place.  I bet you are too. We all have various methods for staying healthy; a big one for us is taking daily vitamins.  I want to share with you what our daily vitamin routine looks like (and include two others that I’d love for the kids to take, but they won’t cooperate just yet. 🙂  ) I’ve included lots of links because sometimes I want to see exactly what someone else does.  And since I can’t invite most of you over to look in my cupboard, this is the…

A recent study showed that people who eat canned foods have 1,221% higher BPA levels than people who ate fresh foods!   Wow!   I knew canned foods had a potential for spoilage and bacterial contamination, but I still felt like they were rather a safe fallback if the ingredients were decent. Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A refuses to eat canned tomatoes.  He says that the acidity from the tomatoes causes the BPA to leach into the food and ONE tomato can has enough BPA to affect you. BPA is linked to reproductive problems like suppressing sperm counts as well as diseases like heart…

Have you seen the recent headlines about a major baby products company and the ingredients in their baby bath products?   Their products contain both formaldehyde and propylene glycol.   The company promises that their baby products will be carcinogen free in two years – so I’ll check back in two years and see how they’re doing.  In the mean time, I’m finding new shampoo! It’s funny, about a week before the news broke, I had picked up my bottles during the kids’ baths and starting reading the ingredients.  That’s the last time I used them. I expected more, honestly, from this company.  Their entire marketing strategy is all about safe…