5 Foods You Thought Were Healthy — But Totally Aren’t
In our constant quest for good health, we pay a lot of attention to our overall diet and strive to consume healthy food most of… Read More
How Do I Know When My Teen is Stressed?
The typical teenager is on an emotional roller coaster in the years leading up to becoming a young adult. Hormones, peer pressure, and the general… Read More
Surprising Foods Making You Fat
A calorie is a calorie, right? Wrong. “Sugar calories” — the calories that come from carbohydrates (aka sugar) — are the only calories that… Read More
What Do Different Dreams Mean?
"So I was in my grandma's house, but it wasn't really her house, more like a barn with small rooms and hallways, and Grandma… Read More
Low-Carb Diets: Good or Bad for Your Health?
Not a week goes by without another diet appearing in the news, accompanied by hundreds of personal testimonials from people claiming to have lost massive amounts of weight effortlessly. Low-carbohydrate diets have been going in and out of fashion ever since the work of Dr. Stillman in 1967 and Dr. Atkins in 1972. Although they are effective for short-term [...] Read More
7 Ways to Lower Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Roughly one in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Breast cancer accounts for 30 percent of all cancers in women, and while there are risk factors that can't be changed, there are some factors that are within your control.Unfortunately, the risk factors that can't be changed include having a [...] Read More
Negative Effects of Technology on Children
In today’s society, it’s more common to find an electronic device in a home than it is an old fashioned book. In fact, new studies show that the average child in the U.S. spends about 7.4 hours per day looking at a screen, otherwise known as “screen time”. Like many other parents out there, you are probably wondering if you [...] Read More
36 Sneaky Names For Sugars In Your Food
If you’re trying to watch your weight or just be generally healthy, you probably already know that sugars (especially fake, processed, or modified sugars) can wreak havoc on your body. (Just to be clear: We are NOT saying that sugar is evil and should be completely wiped from your diet. If that is your choice, [...] Read More
8 Easy Ways to Get Out of Debt
Living with major debt is one of the most stressful lifestyles possible. A life of too much debt can be a risk-filled life as well. Often, owing money means that you don't have enough for the important things -- medical expenses, children's education, retirement, an emergency fund and so on. You need to do everything you can to get out [...] Read More
5 Myths of Women’s Health After 40
Noticing that first crow's foot or realizing you can no longer do the crossword without reading glasses is a milestone (not a good one, but one none the less) in every woman's life, and it's only the beginning of a lot more to come. There's a lot of good to be said for growing older, though - you're smarter, [...] Read More