Healthy Child E-Newsletter
Issue #44
August 9, 2006
In this issue:
Healthy School Lunch Ideas
Innovative Waste-Free Lunch
Boxes Help Kids Eat Healthier Lunches
FDA Urges Producers To Stop
Making Lead-Tainted Vinyl Lunchboxes
Parents Beware - ACIP Recommends
Vaccinating Preteen (11 and 12 year old) Girls
with New HPV vaccine
Merck's Gardasil Vaccine Not
Proven Safe For Little Girls
The No-Compromise Baby Mattress
Is Natural, Healthy, Non-toxic
Are You Worried About Your Child
Getting Sick? Super Healthy Kids book now
on Sale through end of August
Is Your Teen Suffering From
Acne? Clear Acne Naturally at the Source
Important Message From the Editor
Healthy School Lunch Ideas
Need help coming up with fresh, healthy lunch
ideas for your kids' school lunches? We want
to help you get more creative with your kids'
lunches and fill their lunch boxes with healthy,
whole foods that are quick and easy to make.
Get tips on packing nutritious lunches, healthy
recipes for kids, and tips for picky eaters.
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Innovative Lunch Boxes
Help Kids Eat Healthier Lunches
Laptop Lunches are American-style bento boxes
designed to help families pack nutritious,
environment-friendly lunches for school, work,
and travel. These sustainable lunch containers--which
come with a book of healthy lunch ideas and
lunch-making recipes--are reusable, recyclable,
and dishwasher safe. And all of the lunchboxes
are lead-free. The best part is that it's
easy to pack a variety of fun, creative lunch
items in these colorful compartments. Kids
love the design, and it helps them to become
more adventurous in eating a variety of healthy
foods.
Amy Hemmert and Tammy Pelstring, two Santa
Cruz County moms, are co-authors of The
Laptop Lunch User’s Guide: Fresh Ideas
for Packing Wholesome, Earth-friendly Lunches
Your Kids Will Love. Together they created
the Laptop Lunch System, a set of compartmentalized
food containers, utensils and a water bottle
that sit neatly inside a stylish insulated
carrying case. more
info...
FDA Urges Producers To
Stop Making Lead-Tainted Vinyl Lunchboxes
Agency warns manufacturers that vinyl lunchboxes
may leach lead into food, posing health risks
to children
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified
makers of soft vinyl (PVC) lunchboxes yesterday
that they should stop marketing vinyl lunchboxes
that may leach lead into foods. FDA’s
letter to manufacturers states that any lead
on the surface of a lunchbox lining can be
expected to contaminate food and would therefore
be a prohibited food additive. Last year,
the Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
brought national attention to the issue of
lead-tainted children’s lunchboxes when
the nonprofit sued makers and retailers of
vinyl lunchboxes for violating California
law. more
info...
Parents Beware - ACIP
Recommends Vaccinating Preteen (11 and 12
year old) Girls with New HPV vaccine
Dawn Richardson, Parents Requesting Open
Vaccine Education (PROVE)
On Thursday, June 29th, the Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices (ACIP) issued a
unanimous decision to recommend vaccinating
all preteen (11 and 12 year old) girls with
multiple doses of the new HPV vaccine.
Many months prior to the vote, those in favor
of the vaccine had mounted an impressive but
dangerous distraction campaign of focusing
the media on the "morality" issues
of the vaccine to distract and suppress public
debate on the very real outstanding safety
and efficacy questions.
The following excellent objection to giving
adolescent girls the HPV vaccine "Gardasil"
is written by a Texas Board Certified Obstetrician
Gynecologist who is also the father of vaccine
injured children. Share this with family,
friends, and especially your health providers
so they can look at this objectively instead
of under the influence of the marketing by
the manufacturer who is now poised to make
billions of dollars without any responsibility
for the harm they may cause. Remember - everytime
ACIP puts a new vaccine on the schedule, it
invokes IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY FOR THE VACCINE
MANUFACTURER - parents won't be able to file
a lawsuit against MERCK for the injuries and
health problems this vaccine may cause their
daughter. more
info...
Merck's Gardasil Vaccine
Not Proven Safe For Little Girls
In June the National Vaccine Information
Center (NVIC) called on the CDC's Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
to say "no" to recommending "universal
use" of Merck's Gardasil vaccine in all
pre-adolescent girls. NVIC maintains that
Merck's clinical trials did not prove the
human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine designed
to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts
is safe to give to young girls. more
info...
More Comments on HPV Vaccine (Gardasil)
The following comments are from Barbara Loe
Fisher, president of the NVIC,
a nonprofit organization that promotes the
right to informed consent on vaccine decisions.
Barbara Loe Fisher sat on the FDA's committee
that reviews vaccines in 2001, when the vaccine
underwent early reviews.
"This has nothing to do with kids and
whether they are going to have sex,"
Fisher added. "It has to do with whether
they are going to be set up for chronic inflammatory
disease" from yet another vaccine being
added to the litany of those they already
receive. "I would want more data on long-
term effects of autoimmunity on certain genotypes,"
she said in an interview, "and whether
this vaccine is going to harm far more girls
than it is going to protect."
"HPV infection is asymptomatic and is
cleared naturally by the majority of men and
women who experience it. Rarely, HPV infection
becomes persistent and, after many years,
can cause cervical cancer in women. Most cervical
cancers are prevented in the U.S. with routine
pap smears."
"Merck's pre-licensure clinical trials
for their HPV vaccine, Gardasil, were methodologically
flawed. Merck used a potentially reactive
aluminum containing placebo to mask the magnitude
of the Gardasil's reactivity. It appears that
only about 900 pre- adolescent girls participated
in the clinical trials. Merck and the FDA
know nothing about the ability of Gardasil
to cause long term health problems, particularly
autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis,
in young girls (see an analysis of pre- licensure
clinical trials with citations at www.nvic.org)"
"The CDC's recommendation for universal
use of HPV vaccine by all pre-adolescent girls
is a profit- making enterprise for Merck and
it is a potential health risk for little girls,
who may or may not ever become HPV infected.
And, if a girl does become HPV infected after
becoming sexually active when she gets older,
she will have a very low risk of becoming
chronically HPV infected. And if she becomes
chronically HPV infected, she will have an
even lower risk of developing cervical cancer
unless she fails to get regular pap smears.
Because of routine pap screening in America,
there has been a 75 percent decline in cervical
cancer since the 1950's. Cervical cancer now
accounts for only one percent of all cancers
in American women."
The NaturePedic No-Compromise
Baby Mattress Is Natural, Healthy, Non-toxic
Healthy Child Online has partnered with NaturePedic
to offer parents The No-Compromise Baby Mattress,
featuring a natural, healthy, non-toxic design.
This mattress is available in both natural
"green" cotton and in organic cotton
and is truly a no-compromise mattress. It
is waterproof, fire-safe, firm, and eliminates
harmful chemicals from your child's crib.
It will provide your child with a more natural,
healthy and comfortable sleep environment.
Best of all, you can get it now at Healthy
Child Online for the lowest price I've seen
anywhere for a non-toxic mattress of this
quality. more
info...
Five Problems with Baby Mattresses more
info...
Toxic Mattresses and SIDS more
info...
NaturePedic is in the process of making adult
beds in the same non-toxic design. The twin
mattress will be available soon. We will let
our newsletter subscribers know as soon as
the twin and adult mattresses are available.
Are You Worried About Your
Child Getting Sick? Super Healthy Kids book
now on Sale through end of August
Picture your child exceptionally healthy
and vibrant with exuberant energy and vitality.
There is a lot you can do, inexpensively at
home, to improve your children's health and
resistance to disease. Now is the time to
strengthen their immune systems!
Super Healthy Kids is a comprehensive e-book
(you can get a printed paperback version as
well) about what you can do to strengthen
your child's immune system to prevent disease
and create increased vibrant health and vitality.
Get
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worrying! more
info...
Is Your Teen Suffering
From Acne? Clear Acne Naturally at the Source
I recently found the ZenMed system, a product
that is designed to treat both adult and teen
acne at its source, using the finest herbal
ingredients. I highly recommend this system
since it is formulated with natural ingredients
that have been proven over centuries to heal
skin problems such as acne, and promote a
healthy, clear complexion from the inside.
This skin care system prevents and treats
acne both internally and topically and provides
lasting results.
I know the ZenMed system works to heal acne.
I suffered from severe acne as a teen and
used many medications and harsh treatments,
including long-term antibiotics, Accutane,
and many toxic topical products. I didn't
know any better as a teen and thought these
medications and products would work. They
did not and the long-term antibiotics devastated
my immune system. The acne continued into
my adult years, and I am very happy to have
found the ZENMED Derma Cleanse System. It
cleared the acne that I had been struggling
with for 35 years after using it for only
3 weeks! It really works! It has the best,
natural, non-toxic ingredients, and I am thrilled
to recommend it to parents for helping their
teens clear their skin. Acne can be devastating
to a teen's self-image and must be treated
holistically with safe, natural ingredients.
My eleven year-old daughter is beginning to
experience acne and starting to use the ZenMed
system. I am very grateful that she will not
have to go through what I did as a teen. more
info...
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