HEALTHY CHILD HEALTHY WORLDIf you're a parent who is concerned about the quality of the environment your children are growing up in and understands the importance of the type of food your children consume, then you must meet, join and support
Healthy Child Healthy World. Learn how to protect your children by following HCHW's preventative measures for your homes and becoming a smart shopper by choosing non-toxic and natural products for your family. Raising a healthy child is more challenging than ever. With HCHW, we are aware, guided, and informed on just where and how to start battling out toxins and bringing in only the healthy and green into your homes.
Healthy Child Healthy World was founded by James and Nancy Chuda in 1991 after their daughter Colette died from
Wilm's tumor — a rare form of non-hereditary cancer. HCHW is a national, non-profit 501(c) 3 organization headquartered in Los Angeles. HCHW is governed by an outstanding volunteer Board of Directors and distinguished group of advisors and is strengthened by community and corporate partners. HCHW is playing a leadership role in one of the most important public health and environmental movements of the 21st century.
Healthy Child Healthy World is dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. We educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish.
Healthy Child Healthy World exists because more than 125 million Americans, especially children, now face an historically unprecedented rise in chronic disease and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD / ADHD, and learning and developmental disabilities. Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to many of these diseases.
As a national leader for nearly two decades, HCHW has become the nation's leading organization of its kind. We help millions of parents, educators, health professionals, and the general public take action to create healthy environments and embrace green, non-toxic steps.
START a heathier home TODAY by taking
Healthy Child Healthy World's 5 EASY STEPS:
Step 1: Manage pests safely - Though we often encourage children to "go out and play," exposure to common lawn / garden care and indoor pesticides is identified by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) as potentially causing a range of health problems, including asthma, hyperactivity and behavior problems, cancer, learning disabilities, reproductive disorders, and compromised brain development.
Rather than stifling healthy activity in children, you can make healthier choices in pest control!
Step 2: Use non-toxic products- cleaners, body care, home furnishings - We bring home a wide variety of products that can contribute to making our family and home sick and filled with potentially harmful toxicants. We put them in our grocery bags and they can be found in many home and life-style stores as well. Luckily, there are a number of safe and healthy alternatives to these products, which allow you to make informed and wise choices in your marketplace to seriously reduce the amounts of chemicals you invite in your home.
Cleaners, body care items, and home furnishings are the three main categories that can have serious effects on you and your child’s health.
Step 3: Clean up indoor air - Did you know that people in America spend 90 percent of their time indoors? It might seem safer and cleaner, but indoor air pollution is linked to a host of health effects. Common indoor air pollutants -- which are exacerbated by smoke, mildew, and gas -- include formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, secondhand smoke, asbestos, lead, and volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds.
Not to worry, it’s easy to reduce the risk. Start by replacing products that contribute to the problem, then try some other simple steps.
Step 4: Shop smart – eat more organic and healthy foods - Eating organic food reduces the amount of toxic pesticides in our bodies. It’s grown without potentially harmful, long-lasting synthetic chemicals and is approved by the FDA after meeting rigorous standards.
In conventional grown food, however, synthetic or chemical means may have been used to fertilize soil, control weeds and insects, and prevent livestock disease. These non-organic foods often contain chemical and pesticide residue.
What’s the goal? It’s simple: Eat organic foods.
Step 5: Be wise with plastics - Plastic provides a good amount of affordable convenience. Only recently have we discovered that the hidden cost may be our health. Plastics, which are used in much of our food storage and cooking, have the potential to negatively affect health in certain applications.
Some petroleum-based plastics leach harmful chemical into foods and drinks, especially when plastic comes in contact with oily or fatty foods, during heating and microwaving, as a result of harsh cleaners, and when exposed to excessive moisture.
Luckily, we can all make safe choices.
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