Last year, the New York Times printed a piece on mosquitoes, and as one of their suggestions for bug repellent, the author recommended products with DEET. Knowing that DEET has actually been linked to causing damage to brain cells, I was surprised. ”The insect-repelling chemical DEET actually functions in the same way as deadly nerve gases and dangerous pesticides,…
Simple Summer Sauce
My children and I LOVE this dish. Quite frankly, it is the only way I have been able to get them to eat their peas! This is perfect for the warmer weather. You can serve it on rice pasta, wheat pasta, rice, or on top of spaghetti squash. One of the best parts – it…
Wait! Don’t Wash That Newborn!
When I had my daughter, I made sure that the hospital staff did not give her a bath. I had done my research and learned that the vernix offers so many benefits and protection to a newborn, thus, why the baby is born covered in it to begin with. The vernix needs time to be…
The Ins and Outs of Chiropractic for the Whole Family
Growing up I suffered from pretty severe allergies and asthma attacks. My parents took me to pediatricians and allergists, gave me medicine, took me to receive biweekly allergy shots and often found themselves brining me to the hospital for treatments when my asthma attacks got bad. Thanks to my mom, my suffering came to a…
Pink Pancakes – A Little Veggie Trick!
Inspired by a post I saw by Super Healthy Kids, I decided to make my kids pink pancakes for breakfast this morning! The trick to the pink color is the use of beet puree! To eliminate some of the work in the morning, I cooked and pureed the beets the day before, as suggested by…
Cheap Jewelry (both child and adult) Poses Serious Health Risks
(Check to See if Yours Made the List!) Your jewelry very well could make you sick, if it is of the cheaper variety often found at stores like Kohl’s, H&M, Claire’s and Target. This is nothing new, as past studies have shown that a significant amount of this jewelry contains cadmium, which is toxic if a…
Getting Kids Into Veggies and Veggies Into Kids TWO
“Slip some cauliflower puree into a bowl of instant mac and cheese, and aren’t you also inadvertently cementing a kid’s belief that cauliflower does not exist in a beneficent universe?” – Dara Moskowitz Grumgahl (Experience Life Magazine) I want to start by commenting on those naysayers of ‘hiding’ veggies. I fully support “hiding” veggies in…
Creative Play Using Natural Ingredients
I discovered the idea of sensory boxes a few weeks ago while checking out some great creative project and play pages. It was soon after this discovery that the teachers at my son’s preschool told me that his favorite things to play with at school are the sand and the fake snow sensory boxes. After…
Thermography vs. Mammography: Which One Is Right for Your Breasts?
In the last decade mammograms have gotten a bad rap, and rightfully so. At 34, the only breast exams I have gotten have been done by my midwife when I was pregnant. Though my grandmother died of breast cancer at a relatively young age, I had just heard too many negative things about mammograms and…
What's Really in Your Food? You May Never Know!
A friend’s husband attended an OSHA workshop last week and the facilitator of the class gave the above handout to the attendees. Apparently the man teaching the class is very much into spreading the word about chemicals that people come into contact with on a regular basis and may not know about. It’s crazy to…