My “favorite” quote from the article: To see several sets of Mardi Gras beads that I have tested, Click Here. Smithsonian Magazine Article Published: March 8, 2017 By: David Redmon “Every year, 25 million pounds of plastic beads made by Chinese factory workers get dumped on the streets of New Orleans. Shiny, colorful bead necklaces, […]
Mama Kim B. shared the following today in post (with a link to the Grok Nation article): DID YOU KNOW: This week is Lead Poisoning Awareness Week! If you have, work with, or are planning to have children, please take a moment to read this important information! Before Simon was born, I spend HOURS researching […]
I am excited to share that the article I wrote for Mayim Bialik’s GrokNation.com was published today (10/22/2018) for National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. I shared the article on Facebook earlier today and my friend Christina re-shared it with the following comment that I wanted to also share with all of you: As I read […]
Check out GrokNation.com and stand by for an article written by “Yours Truly”! I’m excited that language from one of my favorite books of all time has become part of the lexicon of our modern age. I think it is especially clever that Mayim Bialik adopted “Grok” for her new blog: GrokNation.com. If you have […]
Wow! Thank You to SafBaby.com — for writing this well-executed and comprehensive article on lead in dishes! Sincerely, I couldn’t have said/written this better myself! Click on the image below to read the full article. Published April 15, 2018 Why Lead In Dishes Is Not OK According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the health impacts from […]
This article (linked below) was written by a friend of mine about a family we took into our home for several months last year (after their baby was illegally taken from them in the hospital.) This.Is.Personal. & children are NOT being protected by these illegal, yet (ostensibly) government sanctioned actions. Said another way; children are […]
“Lead poisoning is a major threat at America’s shooting ranges, perpetuated by owners who’ve repeatedly violated laws even after workers have fallen painfully ill.” From the article: “A confused 38-year-old father in Kentucky rarely crawled out of bed. A conservation volunteer in Iowa lost feeling in his hands and feet. A 5-year-old girl in South […]
From the article linked below: “Many have shared how bentonite clay has helped their digestion or skin symptoms. The reasons why it may have helped seemed plausible to me, and I don’t doubt that many have had positive experiences. Since I’ve never seen much research either way, I never thought too much about it. Recently, […]
Dear NPR/ The Salt / @NPRFood & Natalie Jacewicz, Please make this correction on your crockpot article dated 12/8/2017: YOU CANNOT use a home lead test kit to test a mass manufactured crock pot for lead. The limit of detection (low threshold) in the home kits is 600 ppm lead and the amount of lead […]
This article originally appeared in “The Atlantic” in November of 2013. “In 1713, Italian physician Bernardinus Ramazzini described in his De Morbis Artificum Diatriba a mysterious set of symptoms he was noticing among artists: ‘Of the many painters I have known, almost all I found unhealthy … If we search for the cause of the […]
