Article Archive for Health Minded Parenting

Life before baby: Long breakfast over the New York Times; light lunch with friends downtown; 45 minutes of cardio; Thai with Tom...

My husband and I used to work for Greenpeace, and we track our electricity use down to the kilowatt hour. But eco-perfect? Ha!...

We know them when we see them. They're fun to be around. They show concern for others, and often display an understanding beyond...

Mosquito season begins in late spring and lasts well into the humid late-summer months in many parts of the United States. And...

How to help green your school's cafeteria

A Q&A with EarthTalk, republished with permission. Q. How can we get schools to offer healthier school lunches and more eco-...

Eating habits are learned behaviors; they’re not intuitive. So what your children learn to eat at home early in life sticks with...

You probably know that the sun’s rays can produce free radicals — unstable, highly reactive atoms that can cause cellular damage...

Each summer, I turn into an all-you-can-eat buffet for mosquitoes. The problem is, as I once learned while traveling through...

Wondering how you can keep your kids from spending the summer planted on the couch watching TV and playing video games? Get your...

Perhaps throwing money at a problem really can make it better. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clearly thinks so, because...