Entertaining Kids for a Dollar or Less — Without the TV:Kids today are so enamored with TV, video games, and computers that they’re — at best — missing out on many of the simple joys of childhood, and at worst are increasing their risk of at least 15 different side effects, including obesity, cancer, diabetes, aggressive behavior, and more.There’s absolutely no reason for your children to be watching two hours of TV a day — as 83 percent of kids 6 and under do…. If you need some simple ideas to have fun with your kids, with no TV involved, this LifeHack article has 10 greats ones that cost $1 or less, such as:Using large cardboard boxes to make houses and castlesPlanting something in your gardenLetting kids run through a water sprinklerMaking paper airplanesA telephone made from tin cans and stringLooking for even more fun activities for you and your children?
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Posted in Environmental Health, General on Nov 14th, 2006
Making hydrogen energy a reality. Benning Road, Washington DC may not look like an historic landmark but Rick Scott is convinced of its importance.
Here is a Shell fuel station that has attracted such interest that even local resident, George W Bush, has dropped by for a visit. What’s the attraction? The answer can be [...]
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PerkinsFires in high-latitude forests and peaty soils of the Northern Hemisphere may loft hundreds of tons of mercury into the atmosphere each year, much more than scientists had expected, a new analysis suggests…. However, soil data and new computer models now indicate that wildfire emissions of mercury could be much higher, Turetsky and her colleagues report in the Aug. 28 Geophysical Research Letters.
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Parkinson’s Linked to Past Pesticide Exposure: “
Parkinson’s Linked to Past Pesticide Exposure
Not only do present-day pesticides harm you and increase your risks of Parkinson’s disease, so does previous exposure to low levels of banned chemicals — DDT and dieldrin — that still hang around in our soil, putting more Americans than ever at risk and [...]
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Back-to-School Means More Asthma Attacks: “
Back-to-School Means More Asthma Attacks
In the early fall when kids go back to school, more than six times as many asthmatic children in elementary school are admitted to the hospital compared with during the summer, studies by U.S. and Canadian researchers found. Reasons for the increase in severe asthma attacks [...]
