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Healthy Child Healthy World

SHAKLEE SELECTED BY LEADING CHILD ADVOCACY GROUP AS EXCLUSIVE PARTNER FOR HEALTHY CHILD VIDEO.

Shaklee is a proud partner of Healthy Child Healthy World, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. Creating Healthy Environments for Children is a new DVD video designed to help share information with parents, teachers, administrators and child care professionals that will create healthy environments for children.

James and Nancy Chuda founded Healthy Child Healthy World in 1992 after the death of their daughter, Colette, at age five from cancer. James and Nancy launch the Colette Chuda Environmental Fund (CCEF) in 1991 to support scientific research on the risks to children from environmental toxins. One year later, the Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) was launched. In 2007, after 15 years of dedication to protecting children's environmental health, the Children's Health Environmental Coalition was re-launched as Healthy Child Healthy World to highlight the choices families can take to create healthier homes and safeguard against environmental toxins that can affect our children's health and development.

Healthy Child’s Mission

Healthy Child Healthy World exists because over 125 million of America’s children now face a historically unprecedented rise in chronic disease and illness. Healthy Child Healthy World is a 501(c)(3) organization with the following purpose and goals:

  • Expand awareness and understanding of environmental hazards to children's health
  • Help the public learn about healthier practices, solutions, and products in the marketplace
  • Encourage daily action and informed lifestyle choices
  • Create standards and policies for safer products, foods, materials, and chemicals used in the home – promoting safer options and new alternatives
  • Advocate for and support corporate policies and governmental legislation that protect children from environmental risks
  • Engage communities to make wise choices and responsible decisions so families can flourish

How You Can Help

Learn about the 5 Easy Steps to healthier homes, child care centers and schools; as shown on a new DVD sponsored by Shaklee Corporation and its Independent Shaklee Distributors. The video is titled Creating Healthy Environments for Children and it features actress and mother Amy Brenneman along with leading pediatricians: Dr. Philip Landrigan and Dr. Alan Greene.

  1. Avoid using pesticides
    Though we often encourage children to "go out and play," exposure to common lawn / garden care and indoor pesticides is identified by the U.S. 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.
  2. Clean Safely
    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. Fortunately, 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.
  3. Help children breathe easier
    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.
  4. Provide healthy food
    Eating organic food reduces the amount of toxic pesticides in our bodies. Organic foods are grown without potentially harmful and long-lasting synthetic chemicals, and they are approved by the FDA after meeting rigorous standards.
  5. Use plastic products wisely
    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 plastic containers leach harmful chemicals into foods and drinks, especially when the containers come in contact with oily or fatty foods, during heating and microwaving, as a result of harsh cleaners, and when exposed to excessive moisture.

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