In 2010 Dr. Christoper Exley, Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry, and his team at Keele University examined 16 branded, ready-made and powdered milks for infants and found concentrations of aluminum were up to 40 times higher than are present in breast milk and several times higher than are allowed in drinking water. Over a year after [...]
We received this comment regarding DHA in formula from a concerned mama and asked our Health Advisor Dr. Murray Clarke to respond below. “My daughter was one of those babies that had a serious issue with DHA in formula. She projectile vomited several times a day for the first 6 months of her life. I [...]
There is plenty of conversation happening these days on fluoride and the potential dangers/benefits of supplementing this into our children’s daily/dentist-visit routine. With all that is being said, we really wanted to repost this amazing article about children and fluoride for you today. Please make sure you read all the comments from past readers and [...]
Watching our children grow into confident little beings is so touching and it brings so much of our joy to parenting. Bringing my daughter to kindergarten has become one of those milestones for our family recently. My daughter just started kindergarten! Oh my goodness, what a transition. She’s doing so great and I am really [...]
Did you know that food companies can NOT claim to be “lead-free?” In other words, there has been such an increase in contamination of our environment that lead is now in our water and food supply to some degree. “Eat as clean as possible, at all times” says Dr. Murray Clarke, SAFbaby’s Health Expert. Dr. [...]
In October of 2010 we raised the question, “Is Silicone Safe?“ If you haven’t read this article, we suggest you check it out. One reader (Jamey Lacy-Lucy) recently commented on this article, and we listened! Her comment begins like this, “I have been writing professionally for over 30 years (since my teens) and spent 5 [...]
Win a $100 MightyNest gift card to stock up for back to school no-waste lunch supplies! MightyNest is part of our Approved Vendor Network (see them all here) which means that we have personally went through their site and we believe them to be a safe alternative website carrying great stuff parents can trust. We [...]
We wanted to share this chart with you, posted with permissions from Professor Phil Howard and Cornucopia Institute, which shows how large corporations really own most of our packaged foods including natural and organic brands. Did you know that Pepsi owns Naked Juice, Back to Nature is a Kraft’s brand and Bear Naked was bought [...]
The following is an article written by SAFbaby Health Expert, Dr. Murray Clarke, regarding the safety of DHA supplementation for babies and children. This information is important because there is a pouring out of synthetic DHA and ARA into baby foods and formulas which have not been proven safe for human consumption, and have made [...]
It breaks my heart that infant formula companies have been trying to persuade women for years that an infant formula is superior to breast milk. It is even more sad to know that their ploy has affected some women’s decision not to breast feed! (I was a formula fed baby, and my mother was lead [...]
Some people love winter, I love SUMMER! It is such an amazing time of year to be outside, listening to the sounds of nature, hunting for ladybugs (or maybe worms if you have little boys), walking barefoot on the earth and gazing at the star filled sky around the bonfire at night. What are some [...]
Environmental Health Perspectives recently concluded that levels of BPA in the human body drastically reduces when one changes their diet from one that is primarily based from packaged foods to one that is fresh. This particular study took 5 families and tested their urine before and after their normal diet of packaged foods, and then [...]
Do you know that studies now show numerous serious health risks from added fluoride into our children’s diets? They include: reduction in I.Q., early on set of puberty, brittle bones and fractures, and bone cancer. Fluoride is added to water targeted for infants, it is in baby formula, and it is in some of our [...]
We recently posted and article from Dr. Janet Hull’s Alternative Health and Nutrition’s website regarding the concerns of Neotame legally being able to hide in our foods. We are bringing you Part 2 today to answer a question from one of our readers. If you have not read Part 1, please read With Neotame Unlabeled, [...]
We found this article so interesting, and concerned us so, that we are bringing it to you all today with the permissions to repost by Dr. Janet Hull, Alternative Heath And Nutrition. Diet sodas, chewing gum, Tylenol, and other foods that you may not even be aware of often contain Aspartame, a chemical sweetener. One [...]
Did you know that this week is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week? And because almost one million children in the USA suffer from some form of lead poisoning, we believe that it is important for parents and caregivers to have some knowledge of the teachings of National Lead Poisoning Week. In this post we will [...]
We have received a couple questions from a reader who has some concerns with silicone. We received these questions through facebook and would love it if you would become a facebook fan too! Is silicone safe? It seems like so many things are made with silicone. Are we going to find out in a year [...]
With the egg salmonella outbreak being one of the worst in twenty years and since outbreaks like Salmonella and E. Coli have been on the rise, we got to wondering if there are natural ways to treat/prevent food poisoning. Nearly 10 years ago I was also hospitalized after eating a McDonalds hamburger. I had become [...]
We love receiving questions from parents inquiring on how to choose the safest alternatives available for their little miracles! Recently, this question was asked through a facebook fan and would love it if you would become a facebook fan too! The question of concern from our facebook fan and reader we are addressing today: Can [...]
Wow! I personally dislike (using a nice word here) Monsanto for their corrupt and downright inhumane production of GMOs and pesticides. Not only are they destroying our food, they are destroying our soil and the lives of innocent people/farmers. Now I have just one more reason to “dislike” them. I had no idea, but it [...]
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