Raising Healthy Kids

“David Steinman has brought integrity and accountability to product formulations… David’s tireless work to help parents create a healthy home has made an incredible difference in the lives of children and their families.” —Kelly Vlahakis Hanks, President and CEO of Earth Friendly Products, the women-owned and minority-owned maker of ECOS cleaning products, a seven-time winner of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Safer Choice Partner of the Year award “The world is fortunate that David Steinman remains dedicated to crafting compelling ways to explain why and how to identify and lessen avoidable environmental health threats. With deft prose, Steinman teaches us what to do to ensure that the future is safer than the past. This book provides a treasure trove of useful information for parents, teachers, and all those who care about the well-being of our children and should be required reading for state and federal officials charged with promoting environmental health.” —Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, founder and CEO of the Environmental Health Trust, and author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a National Book Award finalist “Raising Healthy Kids needs to be a kitchen staple in every home. David has done a great job of making important food choices easily accessible for busy families.” —Emily Donovan, cofounder of Clean Cape Fear “Every parent, or person who loves kids, needs this book.” —Maria Rodale, author of Love, Nature, Magic and cochair of the Rodale Institute “Raising Healthy Kids is like getting helpful advice from that loving older brother or your most trusted best friend who cares enough about you to share everything you need to know but won’t get anywhere else. In this illuminating book is powerful inspiration, information, and imagination. David makes everything clear and manageable—his writing empowers. You can raise healthy kids, knowing that when you take care of your own family you are making communities safer across America, too. I truly urge you to enjoy this story that will change your and your kids’ lives forever and for the better.” —Sharon C. Lavigne, 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner, from the foreword

David Steinman is the author and coauthor of the groundbreaking bestsellers Diet for a Poisoned Planet and The Safe Shopper’s Bible and director of HLF. He was featured as one of the experts and activists in the HBO Max documentary Not So Pretty, directed by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick. His investigative reporting and writing have won awards from Best of the West, California Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Sierra Club, and the Green Book Festival. He is the publisher of HealthyLivinG Magazine and serves as director of the nonprofit Healthy Living Foundation, a public-interest environmental and consumer advocacy organization that takes legal action and litigates on behalf of consumers and the environment. Under his leadership, HLF has won major court and legal cases against brands such as Herbal Essences, Pantene, Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee, Alberto VO5, Trader Joe’s, and Mrs. Meyers for selling products with high amounts of toxic chemicals that required their removal or labeling.

Articles featuring or mentioning David’s investigative work have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers and magazines. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and CNBC, and on local television stations throughout the United States and Canada.