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Practical Steps for Safe and
Healthy Choices for your Kids and
Grandkids
Homemade Baby Food:
• Opt for homemade baby food using
steamed or naturally soft foods blended
to a suitable consistency. An effective
What does it mean for babies’ storage method involves pouring
health? Arsenic, lead, cadmium, and homemade puree into an ice cube tray,
mercury – are neurotoxins that can freezing it, and subsequently using
permanently alter the developing brain, individual cubes as needed.
erode IQ, and affect behavior. ADHD Water Quality Check:
epidemic? What’s the real cause? • Make sure you give your child or
grandchild pure water. Do your own
Why do baby foods contain these research as it is a critically important
toxic heavy metals? These four matter. Tap water in a vast majority of
harmful metals are found in ALL food cases is not a suitable option.
– not just baby food. They mostly occur Juice Avoidance:
from pollution in the environment. - Steer clear of fruit juices - many
Crops absorb them from soil and water, commercial juices contain heavy metals.
and they are even found in organic Avoid drinking non-organic fruit juices
food. Their presence in baby food raises yourself.
unique concerns, because babies are
more sensitive to the toxic impacts. The shocking discovery that baby foods
from trusted brands contain harmful heavy
Among the identified high-risk foods metals is a wake-up call for every parent and
are fruit juices and rice-based products, grandparent. We’ve learned the hard way
such as puff snacks and rice cereals. that we can’t simply rely on brands to keep
Rice, due to its unique characteristics, our little ones safe. This reality hits home,
is particularly effective at absorbing forcing us to take matters into our own
arsenic, a common pesticide present in hands. It’s on us to dig deeper, ask questions,
the environment. Alarmingly, four out and choose what we feed our children with
of seven tested infant rice cereals contain the utmost care. Let’s make it our mission to
inorganic arsenic, the more toxic form of protect their tiny tummies and their futures,
the metal, exceeding the Food and Drug because if we don’t, who will?
Administration’s proposed limit of 100
parts per billion. Researched by Lauren Lovato
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