I was already cranky this morning. The high pollen count, the cast on my arm, the missing english muffin thanks to last night’s small but fearsome toaster oven fire. And even though my doctor friends insist I couldn’t possibly feel it, this headline in the New York Time’s Science section raised my blood pressure: Despite Advice, Many Fail to Breast-Feed Next came the same old “breast-is-best” …
Hollywood is not known for its stellar parents. But Brangelina and friends could could teach the parenting industry a thing or two about honoring its best. When’s the last time you heard who won Best Parenting Expert? My point exactly…it needs some glamming up, but it could work. Of course, it’s also true the …
Two environmentalists performed “self-experiments” by eating canned food and rubbing Scotch Guard on themselves then wrote a book and called it scientific evidence of harmful toxins. Voila, national media attention, instant expert status. And somehow, by pure chance or a well-orchestrated PR campaign, the book bad-mouthing BPA and other household toxins came out just before the FDA announced its long-awaited opinion …