Aresenic in my baby & family’s food is not regulated?

Next time you’re in the voting booth, be sure to thank the Republicans! (By not checking the boxes next to their names.)

In Rice, How Much Arsenic Is Too Much?

by Nancy Shute
– February 24, 2012The news that some rice-based foods are surprisingly high in arsenic has left rice lovers wondering how the heck we’re to know what’s safe to eat.Since Dartmouth College researchers reported last week that a toddler formula and energy bars sweetened with organic brown rice syrup tested high for arsenic, readers of The Salt have had lots of questions about how one might find out the arsenic content of rice-based foods, and figure out what’s safe.

Infant Formula Linked to Obesity

It’s official!

Here is yet another reason to AVOID using baby formula, and use the God-given, all-natural, built-in, milk-producing, baby-feeding device known as the “breast”!

The reader should take careful note to the headline I wrote, versus the headline the other news writer chose. It may be a fine line to discern, but as you’ll read, you will understand why I chose mine – which I believe accurate. The other headline is misleading.

“The timing of solid foods didn’t increase the odds of becoming obese in youngsters who were breast-fed,” but infants who stopped breast feeding before 4 months, or were not breast fed at all were “linked to a sixfold increase in the risk of obesity.”