Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food, Health on Oct 27th, 2011
A fellow Twitter pal clued me in that the New England Confectionery Company, the company behind NECCO Wafers, decided to go back to its old recipe — and all the artificial colors that used to be in it. I confirmed the news by reading this piece, Customer Outrage Forces Necco To Put Artificial Ingredients Back [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food, Going Green, Health, Reviews on Oct 26th, 2011
I was on Twitter last night checking in when I noticed an interesting hashtag: #WhoNu. For those who are uninformed: WhoNu cookies are being billed as “nutrition rich cookies.” They have, according to the manufacturer: as much Vitamin C as cup of blueberries as much iron as a cup of spinach as much calcium and [...]
Posted in Health, Preventative medicine, Research on Oct 24th, 2011
Every so often — when I am not leaping up to care for children – I wake up, lie in bed, and wonder what kind of animal would have trampled me had I been born before the introduction of modern ophthalmology. Because someone like me with such a case of myopia (nearsightedness to me and [...]
Posted in babies, Health, parenting, Pop Culture, toddlers on Oct 19th, 2011
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new policy statement — Media Use by Children Younger Than Two Years — about babies and toddlers watching TV. The organization’s take is simple: The AAP discourages media use for babies and kids under two Parents should avoid putting a TV in a child’s room There may [...]
Posted in Beauty, Health, Organic, Pop Culture on Oct 17th, 2011
Last week I started recording The Dr. Oz Show. I added him to my TiVo To Do list because of something I saw the week before. I was watching The Soup on E! and Joel McHale had a clip about genital age. Seems Dr. Oz has a quiz, which can be found on his website [...]
This summer was what I will always refer to as the Summer of the Great Cough. Big Girl started coughing on and off all day and night in July and didn’t stop coughing until after labor day. And when I say coughing, I mean COUGHING. Like you have never heard before. Coughing fits that came [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship, Health, Illness on Sep 9th, 2011
I got a card in the mail today from a neighborhood woman. I told her about the miscarriage when she called to ask me to send out an email for a local organization. At the time, she was so sweet, telling me how sorry she was for our loss. We got off the phone and [...]
Posted in babies, Birth, Health, Illness, Pissy mussings, Pregnancy on Aug 31st, 2011
Full disclosure: I had a miscarriage on Monday morning around 3:30 a.m. I was due in March. The baby’s heart stopped beating around the six week, three day point of gestation. I found out on Tuesday, August 16th, but only miscarried this week because I opted to miscarry naturally. I had a miscarriage at home [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health, Illness on Aug 4th, 2011
It costs more to eat well, according to a research study out of the University of Washington. Hoping to see what effect the new U.S. dietary guidelines would have on a family’s pocketbook, researchers – including Pablo Monsivais, acting assistant professor at the University of Washington and part of the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health on Jun 28th, 2011
I’ve got the kids going to camp together. I carefully researched and found one where they won’t be outside very much. (I have kids who glow in the dark like me.) The program provides food — a hot lunch and two snacks. I asked about the lunch and the options are, of course: chicken nuggets, [...]