Physician, Heal ThySelf

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Once I started researching BPA-free products, I learned that this s**t is far more pervasive than I’d previously thought! One major area of concern is the fact that almost all cans are lined with plastic that contains BPA, and there [...]

A reader recently asked me if I could expand the post I did last year on “choosing the right milk” to include eggs, another food for which there a lot of confusing buying options. Although there are more details below, the short answer is that you should look for eggs that are “pasture-raised” from a [...]

I recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School here in the District of Columbia observing how food is prepared. This is the last of a six-part series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here and here.
When I asked to spend time observing the kitchen operation [...]

I have about the toxins in plastic for several years, but concerns now that I have a baby, I’m much more freaked out about it. There are millions of plastic baby products (most of which are manufactured in China that is not the best results when) about the safety of consumers, but my sweet, small, [...]