Healthy Child Healthy World Blog Posts

Last night we went to a preview party for “Chicago’s first Healthy Home.” A portion of the proceeds will benefit Healthy Child Healthy World - A wonderful nonprofit organization that inspires parents to protect young children from harmful chemicals. The founders from this organization were present last night and gave a very emotional speech that had my husband and I pretty choked up. Their passion for founding this organization comes from losing their daughter to cancer when she was just 5 years old. Their extensive research left them convinced that her rare form of cancer was linked to her exposure to a specific chemical pesticide (which has since been banned in the U.S.) that she was exposed to in utero during an apartment fumigation. Read more...