Protecting Your Child’s Health: Expert Answers to Urgent Environmental Questions (Excerpts Inside)

Hot off the press comes Protecting Your Child’s Health: Expert Answers to Urgent Environmental Questions, the latest guide book from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). It'd be the perfect addition to your collection of parenting books if you would like to become better educated about how to protect your child from potential health hazards posed by environmental issues.

About the Book:

Because of their smaller,rapidly growing bodies, babies, children and adolescents are at a higher risk of negative effects from exposure to environmental hazards. Protecting Your Child’s Health provides guidance from the experts at the AAP to help parents protect their children from toxins where they live, learn and play – as well help to prevent unnecessary exposure.

With an easy-to-follow Q&A format that offers advice across a variety of environmental topics, the book empowers parents and caregivers to make educated choices and arms them with invaluable information about food and water safety,air pollution, sun protection, lead, radiation, and pesticides that children may encounter at home, at school or in the community. It also teaches us that although large scale events such as massive forest fires heighten awareness of environmental threats, we must also pay attention to the invisible hazards in children’s day to day lives.

The book is now available for purchase on Amazon.

About the Editors

Ruth A. Etzel, MD, FAAP is a pediatrician, an environmental epidemiologist, and a preventive medicine specialist who previously led the World Health Organization activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She is the editor of Pediatric Environmental Health. She lives in Washington,DC.

Sophie J. Balk, MD, FAAP, is a general pediatrician at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and a professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. She is the associate editor of Pediatric Environmental Health. She lives in New Rochelle, NY.

To get a feel of what to expect inside the book, please enjoy a few free excerpts below.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post in partnership with the AAP. All information regarding the book has been provided by the publisher.