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What Nutrition Labels Are Not Telling You

Since the government passed laws making it mandatory for food manufacturers to put nutrition labels on their products, we have felt safer and more “in the know” about what we are eating. We can now pick up anything in the grocery store and look at how many calories, carbohydrates, vitamins, and grams of fat and [...]

The Skinny on Chewing Gum

Calorie intake is something that most people have a problem with. Much of the time we pay more attention to what kinds of foods we are eating, and less attention towards how many calories we are consuming every day. No matter how many different diets and gimmicks you try though, the best way to lose [...]

The Cookie Diet – Finally a Diet You can Stick to!

There aren’t too many diets out there that most people would consider fun or enjoyable to be on. In fact, the majority of the population seems to have a very Garfield like mentality when it comes to dieting, which is understandable, since dieting usually saps us of our energy, heightens our cravings and makes us [...]

How to Maintain Your Weight Loss

How many times have you lost weight, only to have it creep back up again? It makes you feel so dejected; all that hard work, gone down the drain. You felt so good about yourself and proud of the fact that you did it – you lost the weight, and now here it is, staring [...]

Fish Oils and What They can Do for You

I am sure that you all know by now the importance of eating fish. Everyone has heard that eating fish twice a week will help you to lose weight, and that fish are healthy, healthy, healthy! (Just wanted to drill that into you one more time in case you haven’t heard it enough yet!) You [...]

Stay at Home Moms versus Working Moms

Being a Mom is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Some people say that the job gets easier over time, as our kids grow up, but I think it just becomes different, not easier! We face many different dilemmas as we raise our kids, and most of the time, no matter what we [...]

Landscaping: Planning Your Outdoor Space

What do you see when you look at the space around you? Are you dissatisfied with your surroundings? You may be thinking about changing some of the scenery around your home. If you are thinking about landscaping, there are a few things to consider before you get started. Too many people rush into their landscaping [...]

How to Let Go of Those Apron Strings

Sometimes, when mothers get to a certain stage in their lives, where their kids are grown or almost grown, we don’t really know what our role is anymore. We aren’t done mothering yet, and we haven’t reached the “friends with our children” stage, so we just fall back on the familiar territory of us [...]

How to Keep Tabs on Your Kids and Their Friends

Parenting has never been easy; it has always presented challenges from the beginning of time, and it will continue to present challenges until the end of time. Some of these problems are the same for everybody, and some parents find themselves faced with very unique hardships. No matter where you live, how old your kids [...]

Coping with Adult ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is mostly associated with children, and a lot of the time, many adults aren’t even diagnosed with it. However, ADHD does affect many adults – even some who did not have the disorder when they were kids. When a child has ADHD, it is usually more socially acceptable for them to [...]