Symposium in SF: Healthy Babies/Toxic World

For Med Nauseam readers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, an upcoming symposium that will be worth your while:

Making Healthy Babies, Raising Healthy Children:

Living well in a toxic world

Saturday, November 21, 2009

9:00am - 4:00pm

Berkeley, CA

Tickets $60 each, before Nov 20th: http://makinghealthybabies.eventbrite.com/

The 2009 CIA World Factbook ranks the USA forty fifth among nations for infant mortality— the worst among all industrialized countries.  The autism rate in our country is now 1 in 100.   This symposium brings together scientists, doctors, researchers and professionals for a unique conversation about environmental influences around birth and childhood. Our three part program features plenary speakers, Q & A, and short films on these important topics. Revolutionary new software will also be introduced that will help parents assess the risks their children may encounter from our environment before birth, at birth and during childhood.

My good friend Maureen Block, who co-founded The Ryder Foundation after recovering her son from autism, is producing the event. She wrote this in an email to me:

This is going to be such a fabulous event with speakers who all have common interests: the environment and health of the next generation. There is new health tracking software being announced. It is free to parents. Dr. Wakefield, one of the premiere researchers and doctors, will be discussing the results of his latest research which will certainly motivate you for the sake of your children. Robbie Davis Floyd will take you through the history of the business of childbirth and you will be enlightened  ... as I recently was .... as to where women became dis-empowered. To state it as a Valley Girl would say, I was "like wow." Nutrition, as a tool to having a healthy baby, is far more important than we have historically believed, and we will cover this as well. The environment will be discussed by Sharlye Patton of Commonweal.  

See you there?