SloCountyMoms.net

By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES, Dec 18 (Reuters Life!) - Los Angeles pediatrician Francine Kaufman is on the front lines of the childhood obesity epidemic, which has flooded her office with diabetes patients and put kids at risk of adult health problems.
“It was like a wave that started to build slowly and then it swelled. We […]

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 By CHARLYNE V. SCHAUB
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wake-up call with one sentence.
“Typically,” she says, “we bring Baby home to the sickest room in the house.”
The nursery is “sick” because we think more about how the room will look than what it will do to our babies’ health. Unknowingly, […]

I saw this article on Reuters this morning.  Why are Canadians and Europeans so much more proactive about protecting the health of their citizens than we are here in the U.S.? 
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will spend C$300 million ($260 million) over four years to slow the use of toxic chemicals and wants industry to come […]