From the category archives:

Health & Wellness

The Massive Disgusting School Lunch Issue

August 15, 2010

Although Growing a Green Family is a newer blog o’ mine, I’ve actually been a pro green blogger and freelance writer for many years and I’ve covered tons of school lunch issues. Since we haven’t looked at school lunch problems here though, and since it’s back to school time, I figured it’s due. The bottom [...]

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Organic Essential Oil Safety & Buying Guide

August 11, 2010

Homemade organic body care is one of the best ways to avoid the toxic ingredients found in most store-bought body care products. That said, most homemade body care products have essential oils in them, and just because you made it at home, doesn’t make the product safe. Essential oils aren’t for everyone, so before you [...]

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Reader Question: Essential Oil Safety for Pregnancy

August 9, 2010

I just posted Homemade Organic Body Care: Safety Basics and on that post I got a good reader question. Christine asks, “What are some of the essential oils that are known to be unsafe for pregnancy? I’m pregnant and have been using homemade body care products using tea tree and lavender…” First of all this [...]

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Food successes at my house

July 6, 2010

In the last post I told you about the food challenges at my house. However, we also do very well in some areas. For example… Organic and minimally processed – we buy most food in organic form and avoid junk like high fructose corn syrup and other additives in foods as much as possible. We [...]

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Food challenges at my house

July 6, 2010

In a previous post we looked at whether or not childhood obesity can be called child abuse. In that post I said we should look for some solutions to this whole childhood obesity issue that involve rewarding healthy behavior. I also noted that part of creating a healthy and green-food minded home involves taking responsibility, [...]

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Is childhood obesity child abuse?

July 5, 2010

In my opinion there’s a direct link between eco-friendly eating and a healthy fit body. If you truly eat green and healthy plus live green (i.e. get outside into nature and get moving) I think you and your whole family will be healthier. At my house: Today I was talking to my boyfriend Dave about [...]

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DIY eco-friendly first aid kit

May 17, 2010

Every home, with or without kiddos, needs a first aid kit. Especially now that summer is upon us. You’ll also need some first aid kit rules: You need one first aid kit inside your home and one in each family vehicle. No one messes with the first aid kit unless it’s an emergency. You should [...]

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Organic vs. Green Body Care Products

May 3, 2010

Currently at Growing A Green Family we’re looking at how to keep toxic body care products and cosmetics out of your home. The other day we looked at USDA Certified Organic body care products. However, while organic is good, it’s not everything in my opinion when it comes to choosing safe non-toxic body care products [...]

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FYI: over-the-counter children’s liquid medicine recall

May 1, 2010

Just a quick FYI since I know I have readers with kiddos – there’s a pretty large OTC children’s medicine recall in progress. If you have medications like Tylenol Infants’ Drops, Children’s Tylenol Suspensions, Infants’ Motrin Drops, Children’s Zyrtec liquids in bottles and Children’s Benadryl Allergy liquids in your home, check out Pregnancy & Baby [...]

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Is the obesity epidemic an environmental issue?

April 30, 2010

In a previous post about fast food toys being banned I said I’d be back with more on healthy eating and the obesity issue. First I thought I should point out some of the connections between obesity and green living… There are some pretty out-there reports that say things like, “People who are overweight are [...]