How To Avoid The Secret Causes Of Childhood Obesity
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Learn how your children can have a healthier future by following these steps.
Tagged: Children’s Health
How Well Does The Flu Vaccine Work?
Flu season is approaching and if you are going to get a flu shot, you may want to read this to see if it can actually prevent you from viruses.
5 Awesome Back To School Snacks For Healthy Lunches
There’s nothing worse than shoving a bunch of random food in a bag and calling it lunch. Make these snacks ahead of time for healthy lunches.
How To Raise A Healthy Child In An Unhealthy World
Are you trying to guide your child in a healthy direction? Teaching them how to eat real food can be a challenge, so use these tips to help.
What You Need To Know About Hands Foot & Mouth Disease
Hands Foot and Mouth Disease is very contagious and your child can easily contract it. Here’s all that you need to know about the disease.
The Top 5 Cancer-Causing Foods You Shouldn’t Feed Your Kids
If you are feeding you children these food items, you may be causing future health problems. Make a dietary change to help them be healthy.
Why Parents Should Keep Children Meat and Dairy Free
Dr. Spock, arguably one of the most famous pediatric thinkers out there, published an article in 1997 in which he advocated that children be raised on a vegetarian diet. Since then, numerous studies have supported this idea that a vegetarian diet is the best way to support lifelong health.
1 in 5 American Kids Has Abnormal Levels of Cholesterol
Among the kids and adolescents, 7.4% had high total cholesterol. The researchers also found that youth with obesity were most likely to have problems related to their cholesterol levels. While the numbers may seem unexpected, the NCHS...
Grow up, America: Kids need real sex education in schools – including proper condom use
I wonder if that’s why the Office of Adolescent Health notes that “Adolescents ages 15-24 account for nearly half of the 20 million new cases of STD’s each year,” and says that “Today, four in 10 sexually active...
Study: What Causes Allergies?
A recent study published last week in PLOS Computational Biological found that the reason we’re allergic to some things such as peanuts and pollen is that they contain compounds that are also found in viruses.
Fitness Band Sends Kids on Digital Humanitarian Missions | WIRED
By completing missions through downloadable apps, kids with the fitness band can help feed undernourished kids in the developing world
Why Are Kids Going Through Puberty Sooner?
A new article by Stephan Guyenet posits a new theory as to why kids are going through puberty sooner (and why my cousin – 9, not pictured – is already filled with adolescent angst). He says that...
How to Increase Breast Milk Production
Organic Lifestyle Magazine recently published an article on how to increase breast milk production. For your convenience, we’ve created a list from her suggestions.
Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics
Before you reach for that pill, with all its nasty side effects, consider trying a prescription alternative.
Why Children Should Detox
Are your children doomed from the start? Are the foods we give them setting them up for future health complications? Read more to find out.
Congestion and Coughs
Congestion is very common for adults, children and babies who consume meat, dairy, refined grains and starches.
Attention-Deficit Disorder
Students who are alive, energetic, and imaginative are dubbed problem students. If you get their attention, they will be still, quiet, and fully alert for learning purposes. You don’t have to drug them down or dull their senses with drugs.
Artificial Colors In Food and Cosmetic Products – A Hidden Source of Metal Toxicity
I never really thought twice about food coloring-and if I did, I thought how wonderful it was. Isn’t it great that you can make a green cake, decorate Easter eggs, customize treats for children, make play dough,...
Should I Give My ADD or ADHD Child Drugs?
As a parent, you need to ask yourself if giving your ADD/ADHD child drugs is the appropriate solution.
Beware The New Childhood Vaccine Agenda
The criminal pharmaceutical drug industry was just recently given a gift by the federal court system (federal “Vaccine Court”) that ruled that childhood vaccines do not cause autism in babies and small children. Pharmaceutical companies and the...
