Tweens: What to Expect

Tweens: What to Expect

Moms / Mom Tips

Bridging the gap from childhood to adolescence can be rough for a lot of kids – and their parents. As a parent, you never know what sort of outburst or frightening revelation is going to erupt from your hormonal, emotional tween. But your tween is still your child – and…

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Handy Breakfasts to Go

Handy Breakfasts to Go

Moms / Mom Tips

In the rush to get everyone out the door in the morning, you may neglect a healthy breakfast or simply drive through for a fast-food sandwich that is handy but definitely not healthy. There are lots of ways to ensure that your kids start the day off on the right…

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Can You “Catch” Depression from Loved Ones?

Can You “Catch” Depression from Loved Ones?

Love / Love Tips

Watching a loved one, particularly a partner, suffer from clinical depression can be a major downer in more ways than one. Experts have noted a phenomenon in which partners of those diagnosed with depression also suffer from it, to an extent. First, the depressed partner has a negative outlook on…

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Playing Nice with Your Ex: Here’s How

Playing Nice with Your Ex: Here’s How

Moms / Mom Time

They say that breaking up is hard to do — and for good reason. The emotional pain of a split can last for years, and if you have mutual friends, children or live in the same area, those lasting wounds can be opened time and time again. While the thought…

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High Fiber Diet

High Fiber Diet

Diet Reviews / High Fiber

There are two different types of fiber: which are known as soluble and insoluble. When soluble fiber dissolves into water, it creates a gel-like substance that lowers cholesterol and glucose levels. Soluble fiber is responsible for lowering the absorption of sugar, which benefits diabetics by keeping blood sugars level. Soluble…

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10 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

10 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

Hitting a weight-loss plateau can be one of the biggest setbacks of any diet or weight loss program, but there are several ways to overcome this obstacle and sustain healthy weight loss for the long-term. However, there are several ways you can adjust your lifestyle and make small changes to…

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Regular Bedtime a Smart Choice

Regular Bedtime a Smart Choice

Moms / Mom Tips

Getting the kids to bed at around the same time each night not only minimizes tantrums, but also can make your child smarter, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. In a recent study, the AASM found that toddlers and preschoolers whose parents enforced a pre-bedtime routine and the…

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Pritikin Diet

Pritikin Diet

Diet Reviews / High Fiber

The diet largely consists of low-fat, high-fiber carbohydrates that are 400 calories or less per pound. There is a ratio of 75 percent carbs, 15 percent protein, and 10 percent fat. When following the diet, people are told to consume even six or seven meals a day. Foods are categorized…

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Make a Toast to Champagne

Make a Toast to Champagne

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

By now, we’re all aware of the health benefits of red wine. It offers beneficial antioxidants that work to prevent cancers and heart disease while lowering cholesterol. White wine doesn’t seem to offer as many benefits, but its bubbly cousin, champagne, seems to. Researchers have found that sparkling wines, such…

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7 Ways to Stay Motivated

7 Ways to Stay Motivated

Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body

By Diane Corriette You know what it’s like. You set yourself a goal, something you want to achieve. You are excited and ready to take on the world, and then a few months later you can’t even be bothered to spend 10 minutes working towards achieving it. Well welcome to…

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