You might not know that there are a lot of potential hazards in your local drinking water. The Environmental Working Group recently published a report, “Water Treatment Contaminants: Toxic Trash in Drinking Water“, which found “probable human carcinogens” in every single water system they tested. They tested 201 municipal systems in 43 states.
Local water is typically fluoridated (fluoride is a known neurotoxin) and chlorinated, leading to extremely toxic disinfection byproducts (DBPs). Pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, pesticides and more have been found in many water systems. [Read more…]
Believe it or not, acid reflux medication dangers are real, and these medications do major harm to your body. Shocking, right?
Statins are increasingly being prescribed to bring down high cholesterol levels, which are thought by many in the medical community to be dangerous. I disagree. 
“Failure to thrive” is when your child’s weight percentile falls to the 3rd percentile or below or when it crosses 2 or more major percentile curves. When either of these (or both, as in the case of my older son) happens, it’s an indication that the child is not growing as he or she should be.
“Medicating children for ADHD with stimulants has become an epidemic”, writes Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, author of 
Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me. He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old. This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.
Babies given Tylenol have a greater risk of developing asthma in later years. Researchers found that the more acetaminophen kids were given as infants, the more likely they were to develop asthma-like symptoms in early childhood. 
