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12/01/10

Of all the factors that are associated with childhood obesity, food marketing remains one of the most contentious. For public health and children’s media advocates who have worked on this issue for several years, a main concern has been to clarify what constitutes a “healthy” product from an “...

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Eileen Espejo

Health Care

12/01/10

By Judy Waxman , Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights National Women's Law Center Are women in America healthier than they were 10 years ago? Which state and federal policies can help improve women’s health? Join the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) on Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 1...

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Thao Nguyen

12/01/10

If there's one thing moms know how to do, it's how to do two things at once. I admit it: I'm never on the phone without a sock or dish in my hand. So, it's a no brainer for us to deliver two things to Congress on the same day, especially when multiple key votes are expected to happen in the next...

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Sarah Francis

Health Care Food!

12/01/10

If Sarah Palin had shown up at the door of my son’s kindergarten class with fresh baked cookies, he would have been at the front of the line. And I wouldn’t have been able to do a thing about it. Like most parents, I work full time, and I depend on my school—and its food policies—to protect my son’s health when I’m not around.

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Ann Whidden

Environmental Health Food!

11/30/10

Everyday, children from Nevada just like my friend Rylee Gustufson, a bright teenager from Henderson, eat lettuce, spinach, or eggs. They eat these foods at home and at school. We tell them that vegetables are good for them and will make them strong. But a raw spinach salad made Rylee so sick she...

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US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Environmental Health Food!

11/30/10

A year in which Americans have seen a number of contaminated food recalls can close out on a high note if the U.S. Senate passes landmark food-safety legislation tonight . As it stands, the nation’s food-safety system is broken. The legislation, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), would...

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Leigh Ann Winnard

Environmental Health

11/29/10

Just before Thanksgiving, the chemical industry squashed a bi-partisan effort to ban the controversial chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) from baby bottles and children's drinking cups. Really guys? Protecting kid s from toxic chemicals should be a no-brainer, right? Especially when the science is so...

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Kristin Schafer

Paid Sick Days

11/29/10

This post originally appeared in the Huffington Post When explaining her reasons for killing paid sick leave legislation earlier this year, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said that the economic costs associated with the bill would be too great. The bill's opponents--including Mayor...

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John Petro

11/28/10

Moms are good at sniffing out trickery. We've detected green beans stuffed in napkins, ratted out feigned illnesses with our trusty thermometers, and we're pretty sure the dog didn't eat that missing homework. So, when some of our elected leaders tell us that they can afford to extend tax cuts for...

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Donna Norton

Environmental Health

11/26/10

What's stinkier than day-old-dirty dishes left over from Thanksgiving? A corporation that doesn't live up to its public promises. In 2008 Toys “R” Us publicly promised (even issuing a news release!) to reduce the use of toxic toys that contain polyvinyl chloride (also known as PVC) from their...

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