Formula Safety: 7 Tips To Minimize Risks
This week a new study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives that found alarming levels of arsenic in baby formulas. The amount of arsenic in one organic formula was 6 times the recommended threshold for adults. This is so distressing to a mom giving her baby formula (like I currently am). You try to do the best for your baby and the industry just seems to totally fail us sometimes! But this news is hardly exclusive as a reason to avoid formula. There are all kinds of scary things going on in formula (bug parts anyone?) and the evidence that breastfeeding is so...
Read MoreBVO: What Every Parent Should Know
If you’ve read my previous What Every Parent Should Know posts: Fluoride and BPA, you had probably already heard of those substances. But, BVO? You might have never heard of that but you really need to know about it! What is BVO? BVO stands for Brominated Vegetable Oil. Bromine atoms are added to the oil until it achieves the same density as water. The enables the BVO to stay suspended in water and not separate in layers. BVO is used as an emulsifier (a substance that forces two liquids that would not normally combine to combine) in citrus flavored beverages. BVO is in Mountain...
Read MoreBPA: What Every Parent Should Know
You have probably seen the letters BPA on baby products that advertise they are BPA-free. But, what is BPA, are baby products the only things to worry about, and what can we all do to avoid BPA? What is BPA? BPA stands for bisphenol A. It is a synthetic, organic compound created in 1891 by Russian chemist Aleksandr P. Dianin. It is used as an additive to polycarbonate plastics to make them stronger while remaining clear. It is also used to make epoxy resins. BPA is a synthetic estrogen which means it mimics estrogen in the human body and can disrupt normal hormone behavior (making...
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