Posts Tagged ‘children’


  

Recognizing Infant Food Allergies

Friday, August 7th, 2009

 
Any allergy, from whatever media it might come from, begins with the same reaction. The body mistakenly assumes that an particle, whether it’s pollen, or in the case of food allergies, a food protein, as a harmful threat.

The immune system then releases immunoglobin E, otherwise known as IgE into the bloodstream, triggering a chain of [...]

Watching For Mental Health Problems in Your Adolescent

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Your Teen’s Mental Health Problems Can Be Hard To Recognize
Some parents do not realize that their teenagers can have huge mental health problems. This is mostly because adolescents do everything they can to appear normal thanks to pressure from peers and family alike.

parents don’t know how to separate their teenager’s normal growing pains from [...]

Treating ADD and ADHD With Natural Methods

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I’ve asked a friend of mine who has suffered from ADHD, or ADD, all his life to write a short post on the subject, and in particular, some alternative or natural treatments to ADHD that appear to be effective.

use acronyms throughout this, so you should know that ADD stands for Attention Deficit Disorder, and [...]

Start Your Family On A Healthy Eating Plan

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Start Eating Healthy Now!
I realize that children love McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants. McDonald’s even markets to children.

do you think there are playrooms there? One of the reasons they introduced a line of nutritious items like their expanded salad line was so that moms could eat healthy while their children gobbled down Big Macs [...]