Archive for the ‘childrens health issues’ Category

Another Study on Childhood Nutrition That Belongs in the “Duh” File

As a chiropractor who has been practicing a natural, non-invasive health approach for over 25 years, I find that plenty of “medical research discoveries” belong in my “Duh” file, if not my circular file! As a case in point, according to one recent finding by U.S. researchers, most preschool children develop a taste for salt, [...]

Unhealthy Cheap Trinkets Turn Up Where You’d Least Expect Them To

Enough, already, with using cheap trinkets to “reward” children for doing what they’re asked to do — from behaving in the doctor’s office to polishing off that last fatty french fry in their Happy Meal, especially when the cheap stuff offered to children to manipulate their behavior is found to have [...]

Did J&J Put Children’s Health Below the Bottom Line?

As a parent, a chiropractor, and simply as a human being, I don’t know whether to be saddened or outraged by the need for a recall of 40 varieties of Johnson & Johnson children’s cold medicines due to bacteria contamination. I suppose that I am both; saddened by the fact that [...]