With the almost unlimited resources parents have at their disposal, finding health information is not hard. Finding GOOD health information is harder than ever, and I am increasingly aware that internet content demands the same critical eye that we must use to scrutinize nutrition labels and the side effects of a medicine. My ‘go to’ site […]
I don’t want to write about the AAP’s revised Policy Statement on circumcision, but I know I should… When I read this week in an Annals of Internal Medicine article about organic food, I thought, “Darn, I want organic food to be healthier for my kids than food laced with unpronounceable chemical additives and pesticides I have to […]
Who would have thought that everything good in childhood could come from climbing into your high chair as a toddler or slumping into the chair of teenage angst to sit through dinner with your family? But study after study seems to duplicate the same results: the common sense reality is that the family dinner is profoundly important. […]