Soothing Sunburn for Little Ones

A summer day in the sun – what could be more delightful? Until you discover that despite your best planned precautions, your child’s skin is rosy pink and hot to touch. It’s not time to scold yourself, but to provide relief. Of course next time, you’ll be more careful in providing better protection. UV proof [...]

Diet for a Cooler Earth

There is really so much we can do to lessen our personal carbon foot print and many of us have already got the ‘reuse, recycle and reduce waste’ concept. Trying to minimize our use of cars, upgrading to hybrids or more energy efficient models of appliances, switching to fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent and using [...]

Aggra-Heat How Agriculture is Heating up our Globe

The heating up of our globe and the resulting destructive changes in our climate is a complex issue, but definitely a result of mankind’s activities. Surprisingly, the dramatically successful development of wide scale agriculture has contributed up to 50% of the increased levels of carbon dioxide that is wreaking havoc with our climate. By clearing [...]

The ‘Other’ Sea food – Benefits of Seaweed

If you’re a fan of Japanese food, you probably are already familiar with nori, or paper like sheets of seaweed used in making some sushi. You may have even tried a delightful raw seaweed salad often offered in Japanese restaurants that features a marinated blend of seaweeds. But while sampling these culinary curiosities, you were [...]

Are Cell Phones Safe for Kids?

Our world is saturated with technology and most of us can’t imagine life without our cell phones – but is it safe for our kids? Recent research from Sweden claims that children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones in their developing years. The analysis of [...]

Prenatal Yoga

Doing yoga during pregnancy will help you develop strength, endurance, flexibility, improved posture, core strength and breath control – all things that will prove invaluable as your pregnancy progresses. Even if you’ve been doing yoga on your own, your body is going through such major changes that a prenatal yoga class is structured to help [...]

Talk to Your Baby

How do babies learn language? It’s a pretty miraculous process that begins with imitation. First they have to hear sounds, all kinds of sounds and practice imitating them – endlessly. This process goes on for their entire first year and many babies love to babble away their own unique concoction of sounds as they try [...]

More Reasons To Support Organic Agriculture

I never cease to be amazed at how many people honestly don’t think there is any difference between food grown organically/naturally, and monocrops produced with petroleum based chemicals. The other day, an otherwise intelligent person argued with me that organic labeling was just an elaborate hoax to trick consumers into paying more for their groceries. [...]

Going Backwards – Recession choices

Chris Rock, in one of his stand up routines, has a line about the one thing that is absolutely impossible for women to do. After things get better and better, ie: better car, better apartment, better sex – it is absolutely impossible for women to go backwards. Women may say we need to economize, but [...]

The Vaccination Question

The decision whether or not to vaccinate is an important one; yet many families are not well informed or ready to make that decision when it is presented to them so soon after their babies birth. There are potential risks associated with vaccination, but we are told that the risks of not vaccinating our child [...]

Plastics in our Food

Do you remember that scene in The Graduate where Dustin was informed that “the future is in plastics?” It turns out that person was right. From the 60’s to now, plastics have taken over our lives in every sphere, from the home to space exploration to medical equipment and more. The plastic industry has become [...]

Moms Work Out At Home

For busy moms who truly can’t find time to go to a gym or special fitness classes, working out at home can be the answer. Many of us have bought expensive home exercise equipment believing that having the right machine will magically provide the motivation we need. But it’s really not about the equipment – [...]

Beginning a Home Exercise Program

There are many good reasons why more people are turning to home exercise programs these days. The time it takes to travel to a gym, change clothes, shower etc, plus the expense of a gym membership can be prohibitive. With little to no equipment, you can develop a diverse routine that is highly effective, affordable [...]

Childhood Allergies

Having a small child with chronic allergies can be a bewildering and frustrating addition to the normal challenges of raising a child. Allergies occur when our body reacts to any foreign substance coming from the environment via food, air or skin contact that causes a chain reaction of histamine production and inflammation. This reaction causes [...]

Little Adjustments With Big Benefits

Having survived a tough year economically, it’s time to reward ourselves by making little changes that will give big value in terms of improved quality of life. Many of us discovered in 2010 that we don’t necessarily need as much as we once thought we did to be happy. Health is still the number one [...]

Meditation for Young Children

This concept may seem like an oxymoron in that young children are known for being wholly absorbed in things exterior to themselves – the opposite of meditation. The job of being a child, particularly a very young child, is to explore and become familiar with your body and your world. As babies, this means exploring [...]

Midwinter Renewal

For many of us, midwinter can be a grim time. Whether you’re in the grips of frigid weather or simply coping with the exhaustion of a prolonged holiday season of over eating, over spending and perhaps even, over socializing. In ancient European cultures, midwinter solstice was a time when the return of the sun’s light [...]

A Few Of My Favorite Gifts

This year many of us are being challenged to come up with gift ideas that are original, thoughtful and affordable. I’ve given and received some gifts that match that criteria and many of them can be made, obtained or managed at the last minute, for those of us who haven’t quite [...]

Broken Bone Soup for Healing

When I had a bad injury and shattered multiple bones, my acupuncturist recommended ‘broken bone’ soup. It didn’t sound like something I needed; it sounded more like what I felt like. She explained that inside the bones of all animals is a rich nutrient base that is loaded with chondroitin, or the substance we [...]

Bundt Cakes to the Rescue

The holidays are upon us and it seems there are more gatherings that revolve around food now, than at any other time of the year. There’s the office party, church events, family and friends and everyone coming home for the holidays. If it feels like an occasion, it’s time for a cake, but not just [...]

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