Saturday Surfing
A collection of links and images from around the web that interest and inspire me. Ideally published weekly.
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: The Beauty Of Boredom, The Mother Huddle — Why our kids should be bored every now and then. Child Slaves Made Your Halloween Candy. Stop Buying It., Good — I think the title says it all. You can buy fair trade chocolate and other better treats at www.naturalcandystore.com Foodies, Get Thee to…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Fed Up With Lunch — I am obsessively going through the archives of this blog by a teacher who posted pictures of school lunch every day. Gag. I cannot believe the stuff they were serving in her school. And what happened to the compartment-ed cafeteria tray? Everything is in single serving (throw away) packaging. It’s like…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Adequacy of Milk Intake During Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Longitudinal Study, Pediatrics — Results of this prospective study reveal that when mothers are well supported and follow the World Health Organization recommendation on breastfeeding, milk intakes are high and increase over time, and there is adequate energy intake, normal infant growth, and…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: In lieu of some Etsy Love, this week I want to invite you to surf over to The Brotherhood of Thieves website…because I built it! Originally, their site looked like this: And now, it looks like this: It has large flash galleries with photos of the restaurant and delicious food, online forms for…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Harvard to USDA: Check out the Healthy Eating Plate — Harvard explicitly challenges the USDA’s new plate, and offers their own take on the image. I love it but it’s obvious nothing will come of it: “dairy is not a must have; cut back on red meat; avoid bacon, cold cuts,…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: 7 Ways to Fight Slavery at the Grocery Store, Change.org — A quick list of the top food items that often include real-life slavery in their production. Back to school lunch: bibliography, Food Politics — Marion Nestle provides a nice round up of books and articles for parents who want to…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Bananas: The Uncertain Future Of A Favorite Fruit, NPR — Americans consume more bananas than apples and oranges combined. Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the threatened future — of the seedless, sexless fruit.…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Breech Options, Bellies and Babies — an excellent look at birthing options for breach babies (and lots of information on getting them to turn). Breastfeeding – Our Country’s Lactation Intolerance, Huffington Post — Op Ed referencing the ridiculous notion that the Breast Milk Baby will sexualize young girls. In the…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: CDC Reports Examine Childbearing Patterns in Three Different Eras, The Unecessarian Overworked America: 12 Charts that Will Make Your Blood Boil, Mother Jones — Yet another example of why I wonder what is so “great” about living in America. Reading kids’ books: Do we love them?, First Time Second Time — “Will…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Bedsharing Rocks, Gregarious Peach — I love the joy in this post and the photo of those delicious baby toes (and cloth-diapered bottom!). Even though I greatly enjoy not nursing all night or feeling squished off the bed, I do often miss having Miss Nora in bed with us. If only…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Campbell Soup fights the salt wars, Food Politics — Campbells decides to add all the salt back in to help their bottom line. “Make no mistake: food companies are not social service agencies. When it comes to a commitment to public health, the bottom line is all that counts.” Phone Therapy…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Americans Get An F On Fat, NPR Breastfeeding and Reduced Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Meta-analysis, Pediatrics — “Breastfeeding is protective against SIDS, and this effect is stronger when breastfeeding is exclusive. The recommendation to breastfeed infants should be included with other SIDS risk-reduction messages to both reduce the…
