Cow Milk-Diabetes Connection, Part Deux

I know I've mentioned this before, but here's another reference to the connection between cow milk and type 1 diabetes:

• http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/discovery/cows-milk-formula-and-type-1-diabetes

Word of the Day: Triclosan!

File this under the "everything will eventually kill you" category.

  

If you're like me after having my first kid, you buy antibacterial everything, dousing your kid (and yourself, of course) from head to toe in hand sanitizer and forcing her to wash her hands after merely looking at dirt (knowing full well that you are probably breeding mutant superbugs that will one day come to life and eat you whole).  With kid number two, I've eased up a bit on the constant hygiene patrol:  if my saliva is good enough for my mouth, it's good enough to clean a pacifier, dangnabbit.  There are entire days when kid number two is encrusted in dirt (not to mention eating dirt).  But my immunological mantra is now "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (literally), even if it means that I should be bracing for possible ER visits.  And now, yet another reason to embrace the filth:

• http://www.care2.com/causes/antibacterial-soap-weakens-heart-and-muscle-function-study-says.html

And as a side note, it's not just in antibacterial soap, of course; it's in everything.  

• http://www.ewg.org/triclosanguide

Having said that much, if germs and toxic dust on hands aren't your thing, basic soap and water are here to save the day!

• http://www.ewg.org/healthyhometips/washyourhands