Protecting Your Child's Health

Expert Answers to Urgent Environmental Questions

American Academy of Pediatrics, Sophie Balk, Ruth A. Etzel

• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610024389
• Year: 2020

Protect your children from environmental dangers with expert guidance.

As a parent, protecting your child is your top priority. But with so much conflicting information, how can you be sure you're making the right choices? Protecting Your Child's Health offers clear, actionable advice on assessing and mitigating environmental risks in your children's lives.

Written by experts at the American Academy of Pediatrics, this practical Q&A guide provides evidence-based answers to your most pressing questions about:

• Food and water safety
• Air pollution
• Radiation
• Pesticides
• And more!

Empower yourself with the knowledge to create a safer, healthier environment for your children to thrive in their home, school, and community. This book is for parents and caregivers seeking reliable, practical guidance on environmental health issues affecting children.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Editors
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A Healthy Family Begins Before the Baby Arrives
• Chapter 2. Feeding Your Baby
• Chapter 3. Safe Drinking Water: It’s More Complicated Than Buying a Filter
• Chapter 4. Healthy Eating: From Farm to Kitchen
• Chapter 5. Your Home: Keeping It Safe for Your Family
• Chapter 6. Technology: Friend or Foe?
• Chapter 7. Let’s Go Outside! Playing It Safe in the Yard or on the Beach
• Chapter 8. What a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!
• Chapter 9. Oh, the Places They Go! All Around Town With Your Child
• Chapter 10. Your Teenager: A Whole New World
• Chapter 11. Navigating Your Child’s Health Care
• Chapter 12. The Big Green Picture: Saving People and the Planet
• Appendix
• Index
• About the Editors
• Back Cover