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Celebrate Earth Day All Month Long With PBS Kids!
Beginning this month, PBS KIDS is springing into Earth Month with its annual Explore the Outdoors initiative, encouraging families to get outside and discover nature. Our family loves to take nature walks and we try to do this together a couple times a week. Sometimes we head to our local park with the dog (though he is not a good family walker – he gets too excited and does better on solo walks!) or the Back Bay while our daughter rides her bike. Our latest adventures include heading to the beach while my daughter searches for seashells while watching the sunset. Getting families outdoors is what Explore the Outdoors…
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Recipe :: Flax Smoothie to start off your day!
Flaxseed is a great source of fiber and omega-3 fatty acids. During my studies in human nutrition I learned about the many benefits of flaxseeds. You can find ground or whole flaxseeds at your local grocery store. I use them in my daughter’s favorite pancake mix (shhh, she’s none the wiser) and mix it in recipes when I can. This morning we made a yummy smoothie using a couple of tablespoons of flaxseeds and my family is loving it. In fact, they asked for seconds! Below is the super easy recipe to try out. Flaxseeds are the richest plant source of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), an omega-3 that may help protect against…
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Spring Cleaning Your Liver: Best Ways To Cleanse
Spring Cleaning Your Liver: Best Ways To Cleanse The liver is found on the right side of your body, your largest internal organ plus the hardest working organ in the body. It has hundreds of functions from processing all the foods you eat and drink, storage of nutrients, produces proteins, breaks down fats that are used for energy and aids in breaking down chemicals to be removed from the body, just to name a few. Giving your liver support, will help it function optimally and help you ward off any possible illnesses. Spring cleaning is not just for your house but it’s also the perfect time for your…
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Paging Dr. Andy! Provides Sensible Advice for Busy Families
The doctor is in! Paging Dr. Andy is a new series from Awestruck, a network and lifestyle brand for millennial moms, debuting this month and featuring ER physician, pediatrician and mom, Dr. Andrea Thorp. In each episode, Dr. Andy takes viewer’s daily medical questions to the street to demystify common emergencies and use her sensible doc meets mom know-how to give parents peace of mind. Paging Dr. Andy aims give parents and alternative to chronically Googling kids’ symptoms, by offering reassurance from an actual medical professional that will help decipher if it’s pink eye or just eye crust, ear infection or just teething. Episodes of Paging Dr. Andy…
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Becoming an Active Participant in Your Health
With the start of the new year my health was at the top of my mind. I have been so busy taking care of my family, work and all the other activities that us moms find ourselves filled to the brim with each week that I realized that I wasn’t taking very good care of my health. You know how it is, we tell ourselves that we just don’t have the time to exercise regularly and will sometimes grab a snack or meal that we don’t normally include in our diet. I know with all the events I attend with work we are constantly enticed with delicious yet fattening foods. But I wanted to be an…
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The Mountain High Resort Offers Local Fun
We were invited to go check out Mountain High this month and spend the day skiing. I was a bit nervous to be honest as I have tried to take it easy since my neck injury last year but I figured if I could endure the Screamin’ Over California ride at Disneyland (my daughter made me do this on my birthday) then I was going to give skiing a shot. My goal was to not fall or break anything and I succeeded! As Borat would say “Great Success!” Even if you haven’t skied in awhile, it really is just like riding a bike. You pick it…
