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04 August 2009 »
In Health & Nutrition »

About 70 percent of U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, which puts them at higher risk for bone and heart disease.
“We expected the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency would be high, but the magnitude of the problem nationwide was shocking,” said Dr. Juhi Kumar of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center. (Source)
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Tags: children, cod liver oil, lard, nutrition, vitamin d, vitamin d deficiency
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04 January 2009 »
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Of all the wonderful gifts I received this Christmas (and there were many), this was my favorite. And it wasn’t even a gift for me. In fact, I helped pay for it.
We bought the Learning Tower for Kate this Christmas. It’s a glorified step-stool we keep in the kitchen.
She can crawl up into it [...]
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Tags: children, christmas, kitchen tools, learning tower, toddlers, toys
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29 October 2008 »
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If you’ve been reading the news lately, you know that babies in China have been getting sick and dying due to tainted milk.
Melamine, the cheap compound used to bulk up baby formula in China that has sickened at least 1,200 babies across the country and killed at least two so far. Source: Time Magazine
According to [...]
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Tags: cadbury, children, china, food safety, halloween, halloween candy, hersheys, kidney failure, mars, melamine, poison, renal failure, tainted milk