By Catherine J. Frompovich With all the medical-scientific bull floating around regarding vaccines and Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it would behoove everyone, but especially HHS/CDC/FDA, to take seriously a paper published in September of 2014 titled “Environmental Chemical Exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review…
By ANH-USA Probably not, but the fact is that this and even more sugar is added to common foods, likely without your knowledge. We need meaningful sugar labeling on food packages. Action Alert! If someone is caught putting cocaine in a child’s snack pack, they go to…
By the World Mercury Project team Over the past decade or so, the term “gender gap” has taken on a new and heretofore unimaginable usage. Instead of signaling pay gaps or gender differentials in voting patterns, “gender gap” now seems to be shorthand for male…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The often touted – but falsely interpreted – “marshmallow test” to determine future willpower and excellence should be the quintessential reason not to trust media-propagated studies. We need to stop referring to the dubious “marshmallow test” – and this is why we should…
By Rachel Blevins Orange County, CA – In an alarming decision that could be used to set the standard for doctors who choose not to follow the state’s strict vaccine schedules for infants and toddlers, the Medical Board of California has suspended a pediatrician who…
By Zachary Slayback On Saturday, June 23rd, Alison Ettel called police on a young girl selling water without a permit in Oakland, CA. The girl’s relative caught a video of Ettel, tweeted it out, and an Internet rage mob had identified her and her business…
Erica Hartmann, Northwestern University [Last] year marks 20 years since Hasbro was fined for false advertising, claiming their Playskool toys laden with the antimicrobial chemical triclosan would keep kids healthier. It is also the year when soap manufacturers will finally have to remove the chemical…
By Sara Tipton Most of us know by now that increasing our consumption of fruits and vegetables and limiting processed foods will lead us down a path of nutritional sustenance and health for years to come. Now studies are even suggesting that simply teaching a school-aged…
By Rachel Blevins While parental consent is typically required when a student goes on a field trip or is subjected to a vision test in school, students as young 13 years old are being prescribed birth control at a public school in Washington D.C. and…
By Jay Syrmopoulos Houston, TX – A federal lawsuit filing on April 23 in an ongoing class-action lawsuit revealed that immigrant children separated from their parents—during both the Obama and Trump administrations—were allegedly held down and forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs while being held…
By the World Mercury Project In the U.S., plummeting SAT scores are one proxy indicator of cognitive fallout; the scores have been falling for over a decade and are at historically low levels, reflecting an across-the-board worsening in critical reading, math and writing performance. A report…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor It’s probably no surprise to you that Natural Blaze vehemently opposes the rash of lemonade stand shutdowns dotting the “Land of the Free.” Not only does it quash the entrepreneurial spirit, but it also erodes the innocence and empowerment of children who start…
By Matt Agorist The Big Pharma giant Bayer has just won approval from the US Justice Department for the $62.5 billion dollar takeover of the agrichemical behemoth Monsanto. The deal, which was solidified on Tuesday, has many people on edge knowing that Bayer, a company…
By Jack Burns When a mother tried cannabidiol as a treatment for her young daughter, who was having nearly 40 seizures per day, she was amazed by the effects and thought she had finally found a solution after pharmaceutical drugs failed to work. However, after her…
By Alex Pietrowski In recent years we’ve learned a great deal about the dangers of sugars, even finding out that research was compromised in the 1970s, misleading the world about its dangers. It is as addictive as cocaine, it is linked to diabetes, and many…
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Pesticides cause a multitude of adverse effects on humans. However, they are especially harmful to children. They may have something to do with the mass-shootings in schools all over America because some of them are neurotoxins. This means they affect and damage the central nervous system and…
By Richard G. “Bugs” Stevens, University of Connecticut A new scientific study shows that bright electric light exposure of preschool children in the evening suppresses melatonin production almost completely, an important addition to the growing body of research in this area. Melatonin suppression is a…
Margaret Kristin Merga, Murdoch University and Saiyidi Mat Roni, Edith Cowan University There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A small study compared school-based yoga/mindfulness to typical school methods of dealing with anxiety in children. Typical methods of school-based help for anxiety include speaking to a counselor and other activities guided by a social worker. A Tulane University study published in the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor What happens to the minds of children who are exposed to television? This is an important question to answer because children between the ages of 2-11 watch an average of over 25 hours of television per week. That’s a part-time job. And TV…
