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The USDA and HHS announce new dietary guidelines to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront the obesity epidemic. More than one-third of children and more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese.  As a result of these statistics, the new recommendations focus on eating less and exercising more, as [...]

It seems like more and more children are dealing with asthma these days, and there are a myriad of drugs to choose from to help your child breath easier. There are also expensive air purifiers, natural flooring options to eliminate dust-filled carpet, and other pricey ways to help ease your child’s asthma symptoms. But prescription [...]

Dr. Mercola has a great article, “New Study Shows Antibiotics Have Little Impact on Child Ear Infections” that discusses the overuse of antibiotics for ear infections in children and more importantly, alternative remedies to use for ear infections. I have suffered from several ear infections over the past few years, and I can attest to [...]

This is a great day for the health of families across the country – in 30 of the 50 states anyway.  It’s the day that legislators and advocates in these participating states announce legislation aimed at protecting children and families from harmful chemicals! This is definitely a step in the right direction when it comes to protecting [...]

We’ve been wanting to write this post for some time now and it seems even more important today than ever.  Over the past few weeks our Facebook walls have been riddled with cancer…stories of people undergoing cancer treatment/surgeries, requests for prayer and the passing away of a little angel.  It is in this angel’s name [...]