ICYMI: The Stigma Against Egg Donors And How Parents Misjudge Their Kids

ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week.  This week, we took in stories of pregnancy, miscarriage, adoption and motherhood. Inspired by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's announcement that they had miscarried multiple time before becoming pregnant, our colleague Anna Almendrala penned a beautiful essay about her own pregnancy loss.  Across the Internet, Amy Klein, who writes a fertility blog for The New York Times, described being pregnant after years of trying, and her frustration with the women who looked down on her for making the decision to use donor eggs rather than adopt. And finally, a woman who adopted an intersex baby (who was born with both male and female traits) goes to court, to fight against the doctors who operated on her child as infant, and took away her son's opportunity to choose his gender for himself. Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read and love this week?1. Everyone's Got The Kale Poisoning Study All Wrong -- The Huffington Post The alarmist headlines about heavy metal poisoning from kale over the past few weeks aren't based on peer-reviewed research. Unlike Hubbard’s findings, or the sparse research on heavy metal poisoning via vegetables in general, scientists know for sure that people get many health benefits from eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.  2. White Kids Get Medicated When They Misbehave, Black Kids Get Suspended -- Or Arrested -- Science Of Us Zero-toler...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news