How To Get Your Child To Eat Their Veggies

JJ Virgin at momlogic.com says teaching kids to appreciate a variety of in-season veggies is a great way to encourage a healthy lifestyle. As summer heat gives way to fall and back-to-school season, the local farmer’s market fills up with a rainbow of options. Taking your kids to the farmer’s market to help pick out [...]

WHY YOUR BREATH STINKS, EVEN THOUGH YOU BRUSH

Why in the world does your breath smell so bad? There could be a number of causes, and most of them are easily addressed.
_ You have food particles trapped in your mouth—the most common explanation. That small piece of steak lodged between your incisors is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria. Brush, floss, and gargle [...]

TOUCH UP THAT MAKEUP

The average woman absorbs 4.4 pounds of chemicals every year from makeup! This should pretty much freak you out. According to scientists in Australia, every year, the average woman absorbs about 4.4 pounds of chemicals into her body because of her makeup.

On the average day, between face creams, base, lipstick, eye shadow, hair spray and [...]

YOUR CRAVINGS DECODED

From (Glamour) Dying for Oreos or chips? Your body may be trying to tell you something about your diet, says Keri Glassman, R.D., a New York City nutritionist. Tune in and avoid packing on the pounds when you crave:

Salty or greasy food — It could mean you’re slightly dehydrated. “Salt holds water in,” says Glassman. [...]

Vampire Craze Inspires Teen Biting Trend

Parents and Twi-Hards, LISTEN up!
Fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries can’t get enough of the vampire craze, but they may be taking their love of the supernatural beings a little too far. A new trend shows that teens are now biting each other to show their love and affection.
A new report shows that marking someone [...]

Steak Not Linked To Heart Disease, But…

Bacon Is! From the MEMORIAL DAY COOKOUT NEWS :
There’s some good news and some bad news for meat lovers out there. A new study has found that red meat is NOT linked to heart disease, strokes or diabetes — unless it is salted or cured.
So, steaks are good for you… but bacon and hot dogs [...]

Broccoli Is A Great Sunscreen!

The hot new ingredient in sunscreens may be –broccoli. Inflammation and redness are key measures of future skin cancer risk.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are finding out that not only
is broccoli a potent cancer-fighter when you eat it, applying a smear of an
extract found in broccoli sprouts to skin reduced inflammation by nearly [...]

SINUS ISSUES? COULD BE SECOND-HAND SMOKE

Cigarette smoke could be to blame for much of the chronic itchy, runny nose and sinus woes — also known as rhinosinusitis — that plague one in every six US adults. New research (Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario) shows if you’ve had a history of chronic rhinosinusitis or if you have sensitive nasal passages [...]

Catch Phrases You Should Quit Saying

Catch phrases you should quit saying according to Men’s Health:

“I meant to…” — Translation: “I thought of you, and then immediately thought of something better.” It’s not always the thought that counts.
“I’m sorry you feel that way.” — An apology doesn’t need to be long or repetitious. You just need to mean it, and to [...]

WHY COFFEE’S OKAY

While we’re well aware of the cons to drinking coffee, we’ve learned that the positive benefits can sometimes outweigh the negative effects. So why have older studies given coffee such a bad rep? The reason is quite simple — studies that had previously linked coffee consumption to cancer were inadvertently studying coffee drinkers who were [...]

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