While doctors have been saying for quite sometime that breastfeeding your baby has a gazillion and one health benefits for your baby, many doctors agree that breastmilk could also help with common ailments – colds, ear infections, scrapes, you name it! According to Dr. Basil Bruno, a pediatrician in New Jersey, breast milk offers cures [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Nutrition / Fitness / Weight’ Category
Weight and mass. Pounds and kilograms. The most important thing is that your bathroom scale is useful for you as an individual user. From my clicking around online, l have found various digital and analog and combination scales which are similar but not all the same.
How many people do you know who got a flu shot and immediately came down with the flu? It’s one of the potential side effects of the flu vaccine. How would you like to boost your immune system naturally and without side effects? You can do just that and greatly reduce your changes [ Read More ]
Is corn a healthy vegetable? Obviously it’s a major ingredient – I used corn meal today in a recipe in fact- and its derivatives fuel an uncountable number of people, animals and machines. Original to the Americas, corn is a traditional food of cultures situated in modernity and of cultures that remain aboriginal.
But I’m worried [ Read More ]
The other day I was holding my baby a.k. the youngest [see above], looking around the room in panic, saying, “WHERE’S THE BABY?!” [really happened]
So you have forgotten where you put your car keys. You just can’t remember the name of a friend you have known for ages. You are looking for your sunglasses and [ Read More ]
The 19th Annual Weber GrillWatch Survey says 31 percent of American grill owners are grilling meat more than they were a year ago because they are “trying to eat healthier.” Nearly 40 percent said they are grilling leaner meats, more vegetables (38 percent), more poultry (34 percent) and more fish (22 percent) than they did [ Read More ]
When it comes to the most eco-friendly ways to serve and consume and consume food, real dishes and silverware are always the most sustainable. They are reusable and you can always adjust how much water and what type of dish soap you use (less phosphorous is better). They also tend to be cheaper [ Read More ]
A new name and wrapping for an old idea, ecotourism is a spreading buzz word. The idea is to travel without negatively impacting the visited site. Indeed, many ecotourists attempt to help revitalize the area by buying from local business, helping the locals to improve their communities, and by practicing ecofriendly hiking and [ Read More ]
As Americans’ obesity continues to rise, our concerns are for the adults suffering from heart disease, diabetes, and other weight-related illnesses. In the mean time, children’s obesity is increasing drastically as their parents’ largely sedentary lifestyles become their own.
In 1976, 5% of children were overweight
In 2002, 23% preschoolers were obese or overweight
By 2010, it is predicted that over [ Read More ]
Even if stories of featherless, beakless, sick chickens doesn’t make you want to spend an extra $1.50 on a dozen organic and/or free range eggs, you might want to consider more than the financial costs of your purchase. According to a new study done by Mother Earth News, chickens that live on a pasture [ Read More ]