Growing Up Green: Baby and Childcare

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A "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers a parent-friendly guide to raising a healthy child in an increasingly toxic environment. Imus addresses specific issues that parents with children of all ages face, while educating and empowering parents to truly take control of their children's health.

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Library Journal (03/15/2008)
Imus (founder & president, Deirdre Imus Environmental Ctr. for Pediatric Oncology) presents her second volume (following "Green This!: Greening Your Cleaning") in her "Green This!" series. Here, she emphasizes the active role parents must play to ensure their children's health, from prepregnancy through adolescence; explains how toxins in our food and the environment can cause health problems like asthma, autism, and cancer; and cites worrisome statistics about the chemicals in our lives. Sharing her own experiences raising her son and running (along with her husband, radio host Don Imus) the Imus Ranch, a cattle ranch for kids with cancer, she further discusses the importance of organic food, the dangers of plastics, and the hazards of some vaccines. Resources include recipes, a glossary, recommended reading, web sites selling green products, and biographies of the various medical experts and researchers she consults. Imus writes not only as an educated consumer with spending power but as a citizen willing to advocate for children's health. She encourages readers to regard themselves in that same light and concludes with a call to action. Recommended for libraries where there is interest in this topic.Janet Clapp, Athens-Clarke Cty. Lib., GA Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

ISBN: 1416541241 | EAN: 9781416541240
Publisher: Simon & Schuster  | Publication Date: April, 2008

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