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Don’t forget your baby’s health if you smoke!
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A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center found a carcinogen from tobacco in the urine of babies whose parents smoke.
The study collected urine samples from 144 babies less than a year old. They found NNAL – 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol – in 47% of the samples. NNAL is a cancer-causing substance made when the body processes NNK. NNK is a carcinogen found in tobacco.
The babies that had NNAL in their urine had family that smoked around 76 cigarettes a week and resulted in the babies having NNAL levels near those of adults that smoke.
The results of this study can be found in the May issue of the journal ‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention’.
(Technorati Tags: cancer, health, tobacco, smoking, children)
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May 10, 2006
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No more Disney toys from McDonald’s?
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Disney is not planning to renew its deal with McDonald’s that allows the fast food restaurant to give away toys with disney characters in its Happy Meals.
For the past 10 years Disney has promoted its movies through McDonald’s with plastic toys for kids. Their contract will
end later this year after the promotions for the movies ‘Cars’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ have finished.
McDonald’s will still sell its food in the Disney theme parks however, and may still have some promotions with McDonald’s.
McDonald’s will also now be able to promote the movies of other studios in its restaurants too.
Disney’s decision is believed by many to be due to its concern about damaging its image of being family friendly. In recent years more and more reports keep being published about how children are becoming obese. Other reports however claim that it was a mutual decision.
So what do you think? Good for kids or not? I say it is, but I have to admit I like all those little plastic toys! But non-disney toys would be fine with me too! Its best for the kids though – they don’t need any more encouragement to eat junk food!
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March 13, 2006
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Don’t believe everything you hear on TV (as if you didn’t know that already!)
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Lynn at The New Homemaker brings up a good point today about how the media tends to exaggerate how often kids are kidnapped.
She points out that according to the Justice Department there are only around 115 kids kidnapped each by someone who intends to hurt them in some way.
We don’t have any kids yet but are in the process of adopting – and I know it will be something I will worry about once I am a parent, but at least I know now that the reality is that it really isn’t that common.
You just can’t trust the media – they are more interested in their ratings and in being entertaining than in reporting facts.
Thanks Lynn!
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February 11, 2006
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What’s the scariest thing about being a parent?
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At Blogging Baby there is an interesting discussion about what is the ‘most challenging thing about being a parent?’
Now, I don’t have kids yet but we are in the middle of paperwork for adopting and I often wonder about these kinds of questions myself.
The author of the post, Sarah Gilbert, says that for her it is ‘between the ages of 18 months and 5 years’ and she may very well be right.
But the thing that scares me the most about being a parent is what meg says: ‘the expected loss of self’.
My mother, who was/is a great mom didn’t have many interests or hobbies – she was first and foremost a mom and wife. I appreciate all the sacrifices she made for me. But – I feel bad for her. She never had a chance at having a life of her own – to develop a sense of self or the challenge of goals to achieve outside of parenthood.
I’m not sure if I can live my life like that – without being miserable. And yet I don’t know how to avoid it and still be a good parent.
I guess my challenge over the many months of waiting will be to figure out how I can arrange some ‘me time’ to develop who I am outside of a parent.
In the end though, if I can manage it, I think my child might be better because it – to see her mother be a good mother – yet have outside interests and goal along with that.
For the mothers out there – what do you think is the scariest part? And for those not-yet-moms – what scares you the most?
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February 6, 2006
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Flushable diapers?
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Over at The New Homemaker, Jilsyt reports that an Austrailian company is now making a diaper with a liner that is flushable, but the rest of it is reusable. Kind of like a cross between a disposable and cloth diaper.
I don’t know what they look like, but they sound kind of like pad for babies to me!
There is no way we could flush something like that down our toilets though. We have major sewer problems – its backed up in our basement a few times lately, and the county is going to have to come and dig up the line and fix it.
But, even if you don’t flush them, that’s still less material to throw away and end up in a land fill. So it might still be a good idea.
Jilsytis looking for opinions from anyone who has use them.
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