What Middle-Class Parents Don't Know About Lead Could Hurt Their Kids

March 15, 2013 Subscribe · Forward What Middle-Class Parents Don't Know About Lead Could Hurt Their Kids Erin Pavlica's family pediatrician had never recommended a blood lead test for any of her three children. And when she came in with her daughter Quinn in January, just after the girl's first birthday, the nurse initially brushed off her request for the test. Continue reading... Obama Announces Major Green Energy Push Salazar: 'Shell Screwed Up In 2012' Study Links Climate Change To Devastating African Famine Secret Ingredient In Guinness Will Make Vegans Squirm Whole Foods Makes Huge Announcement Secret Ingredient In Guinness Will Make Vegans Squirm What Middle-Class Parents Don't Know About Lead Could Hurt Their Kids Mosquitoes So Big They 'Practically Break Your Arm' When Sucking Blood AMY LARKIN Let's Talk About Environmental Debt The sad state of affairs is that neither the Obama administration nor the Congress seems willing to actually tell the truth about our federal budget. Today, one of our biggest financial burdens is environmental debt. In the near future, it will become the centerpiece of our financial troubles. Continue reading... BETH GREER Boys With Boobs: Hidden Chemicals Fed to Kids Can Impact Their Health Chemicals in the everyday products we use in our homes may be negatively affecting our hormones, says a newly-released study by WHO, the World Health Organization. Continue reading... MARCIA G. YERMAN Sequester Dirties the Air The average American may not be aware of how these sequester cuts will impact the air that they breathe. Perhaps, most surprising to them, would be how the affected programs that reduce air pollution will shape the state of national health for everyone. Continue reading... ALEX FORMUZIS Butch, Sundance & BPA If Gov. Brown's administration follows through with designating BPA as a health risk and the industry lawsuit fails, not only will California families benefit, so could the rest of the country. Continue reading... MARK HYMAN, MD Occupy Wellness and Eat In: The Power of the Fork, Part One Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is the fork. What we put on it has tremendous implications, not just for our waistlines but also for the planet and our global economy. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.