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Back in the Day! …Health Myths your Mama Believed
I was thinking recently, when my daughter got sick, about how incredibly lucky we are to have a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips. By jumping online, we can seek out a multitude of credible sources and access creative home remedies for everything that ails us. With the power of the internet, we can nip symptoms in the bud long before we have to take our kids in to the doctor. Compare this to what our moms did when we got sick in those “primitive” pre-Google days. They referenced the trusty, dusty old family tome: The Mayo Clinic Book. Tucked in the family bookshelf next to the Encyclopedia Britannica set,…
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Kids’ Food Allergies are Skyrocketing. BUT WHY?
My child’s father and I engage in frequent spirited debates. Some might call them squabbles. Or something midway between debates and squabbles… Can I coin the new term “squabate?” Our most recent squabate sprang forth from an article that I read in the San Francisco Chronicle. Apparently, a woman let her four-year-old eat a peanut butter sandwich in the front seat of a Target shopping cart, leading to an all-out mommy war in the comments section of a New York parenting blog. The majority of moms were chastising this woman for her insensitivity toward other children with nut allergies who might have used that cart after her. They claimed that…
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“Pull the Car Over, Ma!”…Sensible Drive Thru Options
WARNING! The fast food industry is a glaringly obvious sign of the fast approaching, American-led apocalypse. Its offerings are a direct cause of massively increased rates of high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, childhood obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, acne, restless leg syndrome and every other medical malady known to man. It’s a lazy person’s go-to choice in a country rapidly approaching widespread drooling Idiocracy. Its marketing targets and preys on poor people, who are surely incapable of thinking for themselves. Fast food restaurants infest our suburban landscapes. They are greasy pockmarks from sea to shining sea, and export the disease to all other parts of the world, destroying entire cultures and…
