Category Archives: Nutrition / Fitness / Weight

Careful With That Cookie Dough: Holiday Food Advice

credit With the season of baking in full swing, we need to be reminded of a few proper food handling techniques that can make a healthier holiday season and less trips to the urgent-care for tummy troubles.  There are also … Continue reading

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Meeting in the middle with high quality exercise experience

The latest project for Social Media Mom is getting involved with a new high quality exercise experience with Community of Movement. Moms are particularly vulnerable to their exercise getting lost in the shuffle. That’s why we created our phone programs. … Continue reading

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Diabetes and diet: Smaller is better

We often think of the traditional mealtimes as a 3-a-day routine.  Assuming there is a decent breakfast, the common logic is to follow about 6 hours later with a sizeable lunch accompanied by the usual ‘food-coma’.  There are the usual … Continue reading

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Nurse Your Boo-Boo's Back to Health

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 … Continue reading

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Weighing in on useful bathroom scales

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 … Continue reading

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Cold and Flu Season: Tai Chi "The Natural Flu Shot"

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 … Continue reading

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We've switched to hot air popped popcorn

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 … Continue reading

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Brain-body, get moving

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 … Continue reading

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Grilling season begins

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 … Continue reading

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Dishing It Out

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 … Continue reading

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