Moms-to-be, Get Moving!

“Increasing evidence shows that maternal obesity and excessive gestational weight gain are associated, through intrauterine exposure, with increased risk of childhood obesity”, was the opener in an article this week in the American College of Sports Medicine’s Bulletin. Nature?  Or nurture? Look- does it really matter? If a mother-to-be has poor eating habits and is […]

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Standing Up to Your Doctor

Kind of an unsettling thought, isn’t it? The idea that you’d go to your doc to share the most private details of what’s going on with your body regarding any particular health issue for advice, confidence and a sound treatment plan, but leave feeling like you haven’t been heard, or had  been expeditiously shuffled out […]

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Interesting Produce…What Have You Found?

I hesitate to call it a ‘new’ fruit or veggie if it’s just something that I personally haven’t seen before.  That certainly doesn’t make it new, other than ‘new to me’. One of the fun things about shopping at your local farmer’s market is encountering fruits and veggies that you may not have heard of, […]

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