The landscape of children’s health has changed. No longer are our children guaranteed a healthy childhood - not in the face of the current rates of autism, food allergies, diabetes, childhood cancers and obesity. The mission of the AllergyKids Foundation is to inspire change in the health of children by protecting them from chemicals recently added to the US food supply – chemicals not found in children’s foods around the world.
Our goal is simple and straightforward: we want to protect the American children from the chemicals now found in our food supply and to place the same value placed on the lives of the American children that has already been placed on the lives of children in other developed countries. In our efforts to achieve this, the AllergyKids Foundation works to:
1. Inform parents and caregivers about food grown without chemical additives, growth hormones and toxins.
2. Address the increasing prevalence of chemical additives, growth hormones and toxins now found in the U.S. food supply and its impact on the health of our children.
3. Provide instruction and resources to help individuals and families reduce their exposure to hidden chemicals in their diets.
4. Cultivate team building and grassroots movements that drive change in our schools, communities, organizations, and federal food policy.
5. Inspire choices that enhance overall quality of life, improve nutrition and create change in the health of our communities.
Our mission is a mighty one, but we believe that our children deserve nothing less. We can accomplish so much together, as we have demonstrated since we launched on Mother’s Day 2006. We have shared your stories with the press, on CNN, the Today Show and in the New York Times, and provided a valuable resource and tool, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About it, published by Random House in May 2009.
As scientific evidence increasingly supports the role that environmental insults like high fructose corn syrup, foreign proteins and synthetic additives are having on the health of our children, the AllergyKids Foundation works to educate families around the country about the important role that diet and nutrition play in preventing food allergies.
As we work to do more, we are so thankful for the heroic work that all of you are doing and continually inspired by your stories of courage, hope, tenacity and faith.
Together, we can achieve the healthy childhoods that are children so deserve. And at the AllergyKids Foundation, we believe that hope is the knowledge that change is possible. The challenge is in the moment. The time is now.
At the AllergyKids Foundation, our goal is to bring full transparency to the funding behind pediatric research and highlight the research of leading independent scientists and pediatric experts, whose work has not been compromised by industry funding, in the hopes that parents of the 1 in 3 American children that now have autism, allergies, ADHD or asthma can make an informed choice when it comes to protecting the health of their families.
The AllergyKids Foundation is a 501( c )(3) compliant, tax exempt charitable organization and would be honored by your support.
For more information about the AllergyKids Foundation or if you would like to make a donation, please contact:
The AllergyKids Foundation
(or make checks payable to "AllergyKids Foundation")
PO Box 20236
Boulder, Colorado 80308.
On behalf of the 1 in 3 American children with asthma, allergies, ADHD or autism, thank you for your support and generosity.
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