By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Prevention through education is worth more than cure In 1991, two months after we lost our only child, Colette age 5, to a cancer we later proved could have been prevented, Al Meyerhoff and Lawrie Mott, both senior attorney and [...]
About NChuda
Nancy Chuda is a seasoned broadcast journalist, television writer/producer, talk show host and author. Her career spans over three decades having appeared on both national and cable television.
In 1971 she authored one of America’s first low-calorie cookbooks, How To Gorge George Without Fattening Fanny, published by Hawthorn Books. Appearing as a regular guest on Dinah’s Place, Dinah Shore’s ABC daytime talk show. And later on The Johnny Carson Show, The Today Show with Barbara Walters, Merv Griffin, Phil Donahue, and David Frost. In 1972, Nancy and ABC’s Good Morning America co-produced Michael Krause produced a cable program, The Low- Calorie Gallery, based on her best selling cook book. In 1975, hired by Warner-Amex as part of a creative team, she was responsible for hosting and producing content for Columbus Then and Now, a program, the invention of QUBE, an interactive television system which played a pivotal role in the history of American cable television. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUBE
In 1978 she developed a series for ABC’s Good Morning America based on an article which appeared in Mother Earth News magazine. The Integral Urban House, a case study project and model for a sound urban habitat sponsored by the Farallones Institute in Berkley California was the first example of green architecture ever to be televised.
In 1979, Nancy co-produced and hosted Sunnyside a Los Angeles based public affairs program viewed on the CBS affiliate station KNXT, From 1980-1984, she appeared on KABC’s Eyewitness News as entertainment reporter and film critic.
Her environmental advocacy began when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer. In 1990 she co-produced an Emmy nominated ABC Variety Special, An Evening With Friends For The Environment to benefit Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet one of the first national children’s environmental health advocacy groups in which she served as a volunteer.
Currently, she is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Healthy Child Healthy World, a non-profit organization established to honor the Chuda’s only child, Colette, who died in 1991 at the age of 5 from Wilm’s tumor a nonhereditary childhood cancer. She is also the co-founder of The Colette Chuda Environmental Fund, a donor-advised fund which supports major epidemiological research on children’s health.
Nancy has won numerous awards for her advocacy. In 1996, the California League of Conservation Voters Environmental Leadership Award, The Healthy Schools Heroes Award, presented to both her and her husband James Chuda by California Governor Gray Davis for their legislative efforts in securing The Healthy Schools Act which was signed into law in September, 2000. In 2003, Parent’s Magazine published an article Mom’s On A Mission and awarded Nancy for her environmental leadership for children’s environmental health.
She serves as an associate of the Director’s Council of Public Representatives of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was appointed by President Clinton’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Donna Shalala, to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) a position she held for four years.
In 2010, along with her husband James she founded LuxEcoLiving.
Website: http://Healthychild.org
NChuda has written 92 articles so far, you can find them below.
Celebrations
Nancy’s Organic Kitchen: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World National Chocolate Chip Day Today is National Chocolate Chip Day! It’s the perfect day to bake. But what if you can’t tolerate gluten , butter, eggs, sugar and last but certainly not least chocolate. I couldn’t resist finding a [...]
Food
Nancy’s Organic Kitchen: Mad About Green Food
By Nancy Chuda, co-founder of LuxEco Living.com and Healthy Child Healthy World
Here in Nancy’s Organic Kitchen at The Green Green Home Under The H, I am challenged daily by the special dietary needs of my LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child/Healthy World friends and colleagues.
There are so many variables when it comes to defining your plat du jour. At LuxEco, health is the main objective, so I’ve decided to help you figure out where you should look among the various choices within the food chain.
Lifestyle
Facebook’s low float IPO offering is a thumbs UPortunity
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World You might just call it the sexiest IPO offering in this century or maybe for all time. But what is Facebook’s true face value? Insiders including some Google pundits say that its on track to become the most valuable US [...]
Family
Ride em Cowboys
Introduction by Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World The horses have it! Today, in Louisville at the Kentucky Derby their heading towards the starting gate. And here in Santa Ynez in just a couple of hours over 600 hundred riders will be heading towards the Santa Inez [...]
Celebrations
Hats off to history on Derby Day
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World What’s a hat got to do with it? The Kentucky Derby would never be the same without them. Other than a royal wedding, no event is more strongly associated with the wearing of ostentatious hats than the Kentucky Derby. Alternatively [...]
Celebrations
Moms on a Mission Protect Children’s Health
Sweet Charity for a Mom with a Mission: Health Child Healthy World Arms Parents with Information about Environmental and Chemical Pollutants By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Last year First Lady Michelle Obama selected Healthy Child Healthy World as one of her favorite causes. [...]
Fitness and Exercise
Food fit for a healthier life: Olivia Newton-John’s new cookbook Livwise guarentees you will achieve it
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Whole body, mind and spirit Olivia helps others heal In July, Olivia will celebrate a long awaited dream in Melbourne Australia. The opening of a world-class Cancer & Wellness Centre dedicated to providing the very best in medical care and [...]
Architecture
Suzi Amis Cameron’s Muse Elementary School Visits The Green Home Under The H on Earth Day
By Nancy Chuda, Founder of LuxEco Living and Healthy Child Healthy World I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand forever -Chinese proverb In 2005, when James Chuda built his third case study environmental home he envisioned the structure would become an Earth Institute and provide an educational [...]
Lifestyle
Fire and Ice: Jim Whittaker, 83, revisits Everest and shares memories from beyond
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World “If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” Next year marks the 5oth anniversary of the first American to summit Mt. Everest. Jim Whittaker is a true hero. In 1963 he braved the treacherous climb [...]
Lifestyle
Lotusland in Santa Barbara is one of the best horticultural sites in the world
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World This week we are taking you on a tour of a heritage site and garden located in Santa Barbara California. Join us as we explore the magnificent floral designs and landscape architecture that has made Ganna Walska’s Lotusland garden [...]
Lifestyle
The Many Husbands of Ganna Walska
By: Nancy Chuda, co-founder of LuxEcoLiving.com and Healthy Child Healthy World
“One need not be in California long before he feels his soul beginning to stir. The air is magnetized…the consciousness awakens …the soul must speak.” Ganna Walska, the flamboyant opera singer who wrote those words in her memoir, had not merely tired of New York. After a six-week stay in the Hollywood Hills in 1940, the 53-year-old Mrs. Walska truly believed that her destiny lay in this “sunny land” where “people are decidedly more interested in your being than in your pocket.”
Family
Dr. Harvey Karp’s healthy and natural technique to calm crying babies saves lives
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World How many parents are sleepless in America? Did you know that Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) can lead to early death? Shhhhooooooshhhhh! April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. There are over 750,000 reports of child maltreatment each year. It’s a fact. [...]
Family
Google knows we just need those eggs!
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Saying goodbye to a feathered friend We lost her yesterday. It was very strange. A sad, sweet and funny event in our lives. It was raining like cats and dogs. The weather gal had predicted and she was right. [...]
Food
Where is the Real Beef? I’m mad as a cow and not going to take it anymore!
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Cows have a voice too! If you can stomach, actually bare witness to a revolting revolution called pink slime, food guru Jamie Oliver has a few bones to pick. Watch this clip now! Then, c’mon back for more. Slimier stories [...]
Art
Berti Borrell Designs a Green Hat to Envy
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Have you ever had a center stage moment when you are the envy of every woman (and even a few men) in a room? Even if the room happens to be one of many at the spectacular and historic [...]
Family
Thinking about tying the knot? How to wed or dread the high costs of matri(money)
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Staying single may become the new conventional way to avoid the inflationary additions to planning a wedding. When Jim and I took our vows on October 6th 1984 we had a beautiful wedding. The ceremony and reception was held at [...]
Architecture
LuxEcoLiving4U: Casa Madrona is a World Class Destination
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Spring is here. You feel like you need a break. A two-night stay, somewhere not too far from home, a place once discovered, you will want to return to every year. You can stretch it! The dollar goes a long [...]
Gardening
History reveals orchids are orchidellic
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Orchids can be orchidellic Santa Barbara International Orchid Show And if you just watched the video clip above you”ll know why Huel Howser is so popular amongst the ladies here. They named this series of cymbidiums in his honor. [...]
Food
Sake and Seaweed: Sushi Ran in Sausalito reels in the raw and gets big raves
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Reporting from Casa Madrona in Sausalito California A Restaurant Review Sushi Ran is a jewel! It satisfies not only the palette but an ecominded piscivore’s conscience. [...]
Food
Luna Red offers Healthy Handcrafted Food: A Restaurant Review San Luis Obispo Style
By Nancy Chuda founder and editor-in-chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. Do drop in when in San Luis Obispo. Visit the mission, have a coffee at Novo, creek side and then get ready to share a meal with some foodie friends. Luna Red is an exquisitely conceived avant garde restaurant that [...]
Architecture
Citizen Kane at the Hearst Castle was The Screening on Steroids
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Seeing Citizen Kane at The Hearst Castle was The Screening on Steroids.” “Let’s do it!” replied Steve Hearst the great grandson of William Randolph Hearst when Wendy Eidson, director of the San [...]
Art
Raising More Than Kane: Steve Hearst great grandson of William Randolph Hearst will screen for citizens at The Hearst Castle
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. Reporting from San Simeon California. “San Simeon was the place God would have built–if he had the money.” In 1941, the lights dimmed at La Questa Encantada when the movie Citizen Kane, Orson Welles homage to newspaper baron William Randolph [...]
Children's Health
In Memory of Colette: Healthy Child Healthy World Celebrates Twenty Green but Golden Years
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. This year Healthy Child Healthy World is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. We have much to be proud of and grateful for beginning with the everlasting memory of a little girl whose short life, only five years, was for a greater [...]
Fashion
Lanvin is timeless and elegant thanks to Alber Elbaz
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. In Paris, fashion takes on new heights when it comes to the exquisite work of Alber Elbaz. For years the French couture house Lanvin had lagged behind some of the greats, Chanel and Yves St. Laurent to mention just [...]
Lifestyle
Leap towards love
By Florence Ross, author, poet and LuxEcoLiving Advocate Indescribable In my lexicon of languages, of all the words I know I cannot find the proper words for you If I were only able to find the words to show How wonderful you are, I‘d say a few But adjectives evade me, they can’t describe enough [...]
Beauty
The Lead Carpet: Who’s going to lose?
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Health World Lead in her Lipstick? Not Meryl! Not in real life. But as Margaret Thatcher it seems to fit the character. According to a new FDA study, the media highlighted a federal analysis revealing that approximately 400 shades of popular lipsticks contained [...]
Family
A Cry Out for Help: Whitney Houston’s passing is extremely sad and indelibly close
A Commentary by Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World “I have some concerns,” was Tyler Perry’s remark back at host Gayle King this morning on CBS This Morning as he teased her discerning etiquette while she took time to tout Perry’s performance in his [...]
Children's Health
Parenting for Peace by Marcy Axness, PhD: A Book Review
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. It seems that most parenting books are written by big name brands. Doctors who gravitate towards and write about an issue that becomes polarizing, like whether or not vaccines are safe and if not can they lead or contribute [...]
Art
The Artist: A Review with an extra big shout out to Uggy
By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Silence is golden as in oscar winner. You betcha! If you haven’t seen The Artist you must! One of the best films ever! Silent Movies gave birth to this nation. It was and still is a miraculous invention. The [...]
Family
Cella
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. My dearest friend lost her beloved companion today. Cella was an inspirational pet who was truly loved by friends and family and the many strangers who admired her beauty and special spirit. As humans, in care of one [...]
Fitness and Exercise
Gaia Retreat and Spa offers Health Beauty and Serenity
Introduction by Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and Co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. If you haven’t had a chance to visit Australia you may want to book your trip to include an exceptional two night stay at Gaia Retreat and Spa, a wellness opportunity unlike anything you have ever experienced. [...]
Global Citizenry
The Lorax Movie Denies Children A Universal Truth
By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better, it’s not.” My friend and Emmy award winning television producer Carrie Cook Platt sent me a note today asking for help. Her niece, Georgia [...]
Food
Restaurant Review: Get Your Locally Grown Kicks at Root 246
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEco Living and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Having just returned from Burgundy, France as guests of Benjamin and Frances Haas who have a magnificent farm house that they rent, it was hard not to miss Le Fromage and the fine Pommard and Montrachet wines. The [...]
Joe Henry
TO INVENT FIRE by Joe Henry
By Nancy Chuda Founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World As 2011 comes to an end, I feel a somberness lying heavy on the world. Christmas and the lights of all religions, seem to have finally dimmed for me under those timeless shadows of greed, separateness and man’s inhumanity [...]
