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“No-Can-Ber” Challenge

By Hannah Helsabeck, Wild Mint With Halloween decorations down and costumes boxed up for next year, it’s time to pawn off that extra candy to make room for all those comfort foods that make November so delicious! And I don’t know if you agree, but as soon as October is over, all I can think […]

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Gretchen Lee Salter

Disrupted Development

No matter how careful a woman is, there is no way to avoid all BPA exposure. And you know what? It shouldn’t be our job! No one, especially a pregnant woman, should have to be a toxicologist to go to the grocery store.

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Brains, AH HA AH HA AH HA

Think about the brain

As the US Senate begins consideration of the recently introduced Chemical Safety Improvement Act, I want them to think about the brain.

Most of us don’t think about our brains. It’s like thinking about our hearts beating or about the sun rising and setting each day.

The human brain develops in an incredibly intricate and elegantly orchestrated series of events. Brain cells (neurons) divide, migrate, differentiate and communicate. At birth, a baby’s brain has about 100 billion neurons that are in place and beginning to connect with each other, sending and receiving messages. The brain continues to grow and strengthen connections throughout childhood.

Wow. That’s a lot happening in just nine months. But that’s not the part I really want our Senators to think about.

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