Your Guide To Cutting Down On Fats, Salt And Sugar – Part 1
By Kac Young PhD, ND, DCH Fats: There are two kinds of fats: Good and Bad. The good guys are unsaturated fats: monounsaturateds (MUFAs), found in foods like olive oil…
Read more »Link Between Nutrition And Eye Health
To Celebrate National Health & Vision Month, IALVS Doctors Expose Often ‘Unknown’ Link Between Nutrition & Eye Health. International Academy of Low Vision Specialist Doctors from across the country are…
Read more »Oh, No!…Another Total, Nuclear, Ballistic Screaming Fit, Here’s A Battle Plan
By Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D. You’re in your least favorite aisle of the grocery store: Aisle 5. That’s the candy aisle. Your four-year-old daughter is screaming at you full blast…
Read more »10 Early Warning Signs Of Parkinson’s Disease
By Hooman Azmi As many as one million Americans live with Parkinson’s disease: This is more than the combined number of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and Lou…
Read more »Kids Outgrowing Their Skates
By John Harmata Summer is over and I signed my children up for skating classes again. I tried their skates on just a couple days ago and they felt fine….
Read more »Tough Love Tips For Better Back To School Sleep
By Robert S. Rosenberg Near the end of summer we all have a hard time adjusting back to our regular sleep schedule – especially our kids! Here are 9 tips…
Read more »‘Sun Safe’ Study: Children Seek Shade If Available
A study by the founder of Sun Safe Soccer reveals nearly two-thirds of children will use shade tents during soccer breaks without any prompting from coaches. The study reinforces a…
Read more »When Preparing For “Back To School,” Don’t Forget About Healthy After-School Snacks
Preparing a child’s lunch is an important part of the back-to-school routine, but experts at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital…
Read more »4 Weight Loss Tips To Shed Unnecessary Pounds
By Leanne Thompson First off I want to say that I am no dietician, everybody’s idiosyncratic which means that everybody’s unique. Techniques that work for me may not particularly work…
Read more »Rough And Tumble: Why Kids Need To Be Involved With Sports
By Katherine Smith I have to start out by admitting to a little bias. I grew up rough and tumble. There were no contact sports that I didn’t try. Any…
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