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It is the weekend and time to unwind, relieve some stress and discuss the past week. So grab a cup of coffee and join us here at Healthy Moms. What were some of the positive things that happened? What really bothered you? Did you laugh? Cry? Stand on your head? Whatever you did this past week I want to hear it. Writing down all the crazy things that happened over the past week is a good way to deal with stress. As our lives get busier and busier along with it is stress. It is time to let it all out so you can enjoy your weekend. If you don't have time to write all about your week just answer the Weekend Unwind question found at the bottom of this article. Grab the button code, make your blog post and don't forget to leave your link with MckLinky.

I would like to thank all of my readers for their prayers and support. If you didn't read my article on our current situation it can be found here.

After sharing my situation I received a ton of positive feedback from wonderful people like you. Sometimes I hit such a low point and it makes me feel helpless. Knowing that there are people out there who truly care makes a big difference.

I want to send a special thank you out to these bloggers who took the time to mention me on their blogs:

Melanie from Ramblings of a Wannabe Writer
The folks at Mommy Blips
Carrie from Growing a Baby (or two) in Seattle
Marissa at Five Minutes for Mom
Kristy from Kristy's Notes
The Jacobson Family

I apologize if I missed anyone.

Here is a quick update on what is going on over here. God truly answers our prayers. The day after I made that blog post I was inspired. I've decided to make major improvements to this website (more details later). And I believe it was God speaking to me. So I went online and did some research and contacted professionals to help me out. My dream is going to come true soon and I am so excited. I wish I could share all the details with you guys, but I need to wait until it is all figured out and up and running. All I am going to say is, what I have planned is going to be a lot of fun and it will help us to spread our message.

The second exciting thing that has happened to us is Chris has a huge job lead. He just got done with his third interview with a very promising company. Now we just have to wait and see if he gets the job.

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support! Keep praying that this website will make a difference in the lives of families.




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Happy Halloween from all of us here at Healthy Moms

Here are some Halloween Safety tips from Halloween Safety Guide.com.

HALLOWEEN SAFETY TIPS FOR KIDS


Anytime a child has an accident, it's tragic. The last thing that you want to happen is for your child to be hurt on a holiday, it would forever live in the minds of the child and the family.

There are many ways to keep your child safe at Halloween, when they are more prone to accidents and injuries. The excitement of children and adults at this time of year sometimes makes them forget to be careful. Simple common sense can do a lot to stop any tragedies from happening.
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Help your child pick out or make a costume that will be safe. Make it fire proof, the eye holes should be large enough for good peripheral vision.
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If you set jack-o-lanterns on your porch with candles in them, make sure that they are far enough out of the way so that kids costumes won't accidentally be set on fire.
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Make sure that if your child is carrying a prop, such as a scythe, butcher knife or a pitchfork, that the tips are smooth and flexible enough to not cause injury if fallen on.
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Kids always want to help with the pumpkin carving. Small children shouldn't be allowed to use a sharp knife to cut the top or the face. There are many kits available that come with tiny saws that work better then knives and are safer, although you can be cut by them as well. It's best to let the kids clean out the pumpkin and draw a face on it, which you can carve for them.
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Treating your kids to a spooky Halloween dinner will make them less likely to eat the candy they collect before you have a chance to check it for them.
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Teaching your kids basic everyday safety such as not getting into cars or talking to strangers, watching both ways before crossing streets and crossing when the lights tell you to, will help make them safer when they are out Trick or Treating.

Make Halloween a fun, safe and happy time for your kids and they'll carry on the tradition that you taught them to their own families some day!

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Dr. Heather Manley, a naturopathic physician licensed in the state of Hawaii has put together this wonderful adventure workbook and audio CD about two sisters, Merrin and Pearl, who travel through their baby brother's digestive system to take out a penny that he has swallowed. The Human Body Detectives is designed for homeschooling parents, families and teachers as a tool to teach their kids about science and the human body.

The first book in the series, The Lucky Escape, comes complete with stickers and fun activities for kids ages 6-12. Your child will have fun while learning about the digestive system and how it works.

The workbook also has helpful information on healthy food choices. Dr. Manley encourages children to eat a colorful variety of foods. She also explains what each color does for your health. For example, "red foods support the immune system, protect your brain, and are anti-inflammatory."

My children loved the story and the book is also a lot of fun and teaches about the digestive system and eating right. I am looking forward to listening to more creative adventures in this series.



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Joy is returning to my mothering.

I had gotten caught up in life . . . in chaos . . . in petty details . . . in breaking up minor scuffles between the boys. I found myself screaming instead of remaining calm.

I got convicted. I want my children to have self-control, yet I raise my voice, throw things, and slam doors?

I would find myself praying with the kiddos . . . imploring them to ask God for help to control their behavior. Yet, I acted like a 2 year old. My behavior was only teaching them that if God couldn't help me act like and adult, how on earth could He help them share a toy?

Rather than continuing with my lunacy, the Hottie Hubby and I sat down last weekend with our son, and asked him what he thought our rules were.

If you will remember, several weeks ago, I mentioned that we were embarking on setting up some rules of the house. We wanted to create an easily memorized standard by which behavior could be measured and molded.

I needed this structure more than the children.

And we didn't even come up with the list . . . our oldest son did!

Are you ready?

1. Love God.
2. Honor your parents. (Honor means to prize or to treat with special value.)
3. Love each other. (Yes, that means your brother.)
4. Show respect for our things.
5. No whining, arguing, complaining, or fighting.

If one of these rules is broken, that automatically results in a time-out that lasts as long as their age. So if they are 3 . . . then you sit on your chair for 3 minutes.

If they still didn't learn their lesson, and break one of the rules immediately afterward then we employ a punishment. A punishment can mean a spanking (sorry to step on any one's toes--but it is in the Bible, which is my plumb line), picking a job from a chore jar, or the toy or whatever is fostering the disruption being removed for a designated time.

At first, giving my child a chore really bothered me. But look at it this way. Completing a chore is altering the negative behavior. I am giving them something else to do that is important to our family.

Let me further shed some light by an example. You discipline yourself by exercising and eating smaller portions. But let's say that you have a tendency to snack. Instead of eating the chocolate bar, you replace this behavior with a cup of hot tea. Chores in the context of parenting or life, are supposed to be positive. Rather than placing my child back into the situation that is causing him to stumble, I am going to give him a new task to focus on. Replace a bad habit or behavior with something positive. Retrain the thought process. Make sense?

However, we need to come up with age-appropriate chores still.

And I still am waiting for every one's list!

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Many Americans don't know much about clinical research or how it benefits in the fight against major disease. Participants in clinical research projects are needed to help conquer diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, heart disease and stroke.

Clinical research has helped reduce the percentage of Americans suffering from these major diseases. For example, heart disease is down 4.7 percent, cancer is down 1.8 percent, stroke is down 4.6 percent, diabetes is down 3.9 percent and influenza and pneumonia is down 8.4 percent (source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics Report August 19, 2009).

Participation in clinical research is down which is leaving a negative impact on the development of new drugs, cures and therapies.

ClinicalResearch.com is a new website for people who have little or no understanding of clinical research and the value it brings to society. Patients can look up ongoing or future clinical trials appropriate for their disease or condition and narrow them down to those close to where they live.

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When it comes to lasting weight loss, slow and steady wins the race.

Although many people take on the latest diet program, quick fix or promise of immediate results, most only find themselves right back where they started in a relatively short period of time. In fact, most people who take drastic measures to lose weight not only gain back what they lost, but gain even more leaving them more discouraged and frustrated with each attempt.

Why do we continue to put our time, effort and energy into the “quick fix” and why doesn’t it work?

Dieting doesn’t work for many reasons. The first reason is that drastic steps are temporary...at best. It isn't realistic to commit into a 7-day-a-week exercise program if we haven't been exercising at all or to think that we can drastically reduce our calories for the long term if we have many eating behaviors that caused the weight gain in the first place. If the changes we make can’t comfortably be worked into our day, our routine, our lifestyles and our lives, whatever we take on isn’t likely to continue. We may be able to commit to an overhaul in food choices or eating behaviors for a short while but when confronted with something that triggers us to overeat or abandon our best efforts, we will immediately go back to what is familiar and comfortable.

What is familiar and comfortable? Our habits. Whether they’re good or bad they’re what we’re comfortable with. That’s why when we want to lose weight those habits which originally caused the weight gain must be changed. We’ve all heard the saying “habits are hard to break” and because that’s true, a slow and steady approach needs to be used to develop new, healthier habits to replace the old, unhealthy ones.

So how do we break the habits which lead us to gain weight?

One thing we need to look at is our “diet mentality.” For many moms, we’re either on or off a diet at any given time. If we have that “all or nothing” or “black or white” extreme behavior when it comes to weight loss, there’s no room for error and no way to recover from any mistakes made along the way. If the road to weight loss doesn’t allow for some imperfection, it is unrealistic to think that we can stick it out for the long haul.

Life throws us some curveballs from time to time, that’s a given. How we handle those curveballs may require some adjustments to our eating plan. If our eating plan doesn’t allow for those adjustments, where does that leave us?

It leaves us right off our diet. Angry, frustrated and discouraged, we revert right back to what is so deeply ingrained within us. Any progress made is abandoned and for many moms, here’s where the negative self talk takes us even further away from believing weight loss success is possible as we berate ourselves with every bite of foods we’ve sworn off for good. So, if this sounds so familiar and you’ve had enough of “yo-yo dieting”, weight cycling and diet behavior, what can you do?

1) Understand that each time you start an unrealistic diet, you chip away at your confidence and belief in your ability that you can lose weight. The more you chip away at that confidence, the less you trust yourself and the more powerless you become.

2) Understand that although it doesn’t sound as appealing as a “miracle cure” or “immediate solution”, weight loss is a journey. The more you discover why you gained the weight and understand that your habits can and need to be changed, the more weight loss success you’ll have.

3) Focus on the fact that each habit you change serves as a stepping stone to greater confidence, trust and belief in yourself. When we isolate a habit we want to change, put our efforts into finding a solution to turn that habit into one that better suits us, we feel proud and happy with our ability to take control of our eating and our behavior. That simply feels good and enables us to see that our choices and decisions are within our control. It brings about a feeling of strength and empowerment as well as increases our confidence and self esteem.

When we feel confident, strong and empowered, we’re proud of ourselves and realize that anything is within our grasp. While it may be more exciting to believe that drastic efforts bring huge results, when it comes to weight loss, the greatest results are found by making the most minimal...but consistent changes.

Do you have any tips or tricks that have worked for you to stay motivated on a slow, steady course toward a healthier lifestyle? Share them here in the comments or drop me a note!

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I was watching Dr. Oz the other day and his guest was a woman with a major sugar addiction. Through the foods she consumed, she was ingesting about 84 tablespoons of sugar daily. Can you believe it? With Halloween and other holidays on the horizon, I want to be sure to control my own sugar intake.

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Research suggests they're more susceptible to dangers of tobacco

By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter

SUNDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Women may be more vulnerable than men to the carcinogens and other noxious substances in cigarette smoke, a growing body of research suggests.

In one study of nearly 700 people with lung cancer, Swiss experts found that women tended to be younger when they received the diagnosis, even though they smoked less than the men who developed lung cancer.

In another study, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Bergen in Norway evaluated more than 950 men and women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), known to be linked to smoking. The result: The women with COPD were younger when they got the diagnosis and had smoked less than the men with the respiratory ailment.

"Maybe women are more susceptible to the lung-damaging effects of smoking," said Dr. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim, a visiting research fellow at Harvard and a researcher at the University of Bergen, who led the COPD study. She presented the findings in May at the American Thoracic Society's annual conference.

In fact, several other studies in the past 20 years have suggested that female smokers may be more susceptible to lung cancer than male smokers.

And Soerheim and her colleague, Dr. Dawn L. DeMeo, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, found that, in 2000, the number of women dying from COPD surpassed the number of men, although the researchers aren't sure why.

However, Dr. Michael Thun, the emeritus director of epidemiology research at the American Cancer Society, isn't as quick to embrace the theory that women are more susceptible to lung cancer.

"The actual evidence suggests that men and women are remarkably similar in their risk of developing lung cancer -- with or without smoking," he said.

But, Thun added, "the types of lung cancer they get are different," referring to the sites in the lung where the cancer is likely to occur in women and men.

Addressing the new COPD research, which seems to say that women are more vulnerable, Thun said other factors might be at play. They include women's longer life expectancy, thus making them more likely to develop the condition.

Thun said the focus on possible gender differences is missing the point. Instead, he said, health experts -- and the public -- need to focus on what is certain: that smoking is an enormous contributor to both lung cancer and COPD.

"If they [smokers] quit before age 50, they avoid most of the risk," he said, citing published research.

And once they do quit, Thun said, women and men can move on to other known ways to reduce their risk for lung cancer, such as avoiding exposure to secondhand smoke.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women in the United States. More people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined, according to the American Cancer Society.

The society estimates that there will be more than 219,000 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed this year and that 159,390 people will die from the disease.

More information

The American Cancer Society has more on smoking and lung cancer.

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Potty training can be a long process for some children. If you believe that your child is taking longer to understand the concept than you expected, don't worry he will catch on. Every child is different and potty training can be a challenge for some. Don't give up.

If you are consistent and have patience your little one will become a master of the potty. Sometimes as parents we get frustrated and want to just give up if our child doesn't understand. The other day I felt that way with my two year old. But that is when I reminded myself that it is alright. He will get it soon. I just have to be consistent and never give up.

Potty training is a process and children are not all going to "get it" in a matter of days. It takes months for some.

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THURSDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- While most people are doing all they can to avoid the swine flu, some groups of people are said to be actively seeking it out.

These are parents who are reportedly arranging swine flu "parties" -- similar to chicken pox or measles parties -- so their healthy children can be exposed to the virus through kids who are already sick with the H1N1 flu.

Health experts theorize that the rationale may be to give a child the swine flu while it's still relatively mild, before it mutates into something more virulent. But, so far, all indications point to the H1N1 virus staying as mild to moderate as when it first appeared in the spring.

Or perhaps parents think that the disease is somehow better than unknown side effects associated with the H1N1 vaccine. But, there appear to be no untoward side effects associated with the shot other than redness, tenderness and swelling at the injection site, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But health experts are universal in their condemnation of the practice of swine flu parties.

"Any time you willingly subject your children to an infectious disease, you run the risk of all sorts of complications," said Dr. Tamara Kuittinen, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "There's always a risk of giving them more than you bargained for. It may be dangerous."

Added Dr. Robert Frenck, a professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital: "It's not anything I would advocate for swine flu or any flu. Most of the time the flu is a mild illness, but it can be severe. People die from H1N1 and from the regular flu."

Swine flu parties could prove particularly risky because the H1N1 flu, unlike seasonal flu, tends to target children and young adults. According to data collected by the CDC from 28 states from Sept. 1 to Oct. 10, nearly 24 percent of deaths were among people under age 25, about 65 percent of deaths were among those 25 to 64, and only 11.6 percent of the deaths were among people aged 65 and older.

During the same six-week period, 27 states reported 4,958 people hospitalized with H1N1 swine flu, and more than half -- 53 percent -- were under the age of 25.

Despite questions in some quarters about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine now being rolled out, the shot is actually the best way to protect your child against the swine flu, said Dr. Nathan Litman, director of pediatrics and chief of pediatric infectious diseases at The Children's Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City.

"It should totally prevent them from acquiring influenza and, if they do get sick, they would have a milder illness," he said.

Vaccination will also prevent others from falling ill: Children who contract the swine flu at a party not only run the risk of getting sick themselves, they can also pass it on to others who might be at greater risk of complications, Litman added.

"When you have a good match between the vaccine and the virus circulating, you have 90 percent or more protection against the disease," Frenck said.

More information

Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on the swine flu, including the centers' take on swine flu parties.

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Always and Tampax are sponsoring, "America's Biggest Sleepover," an online event for teen girls to help raise money for the Protecting Futures program, which helps girls in developing regions stay in school.

The nationwide, online event will be hosted on November 7 on beinggirl.com.

"America's Biggest Sleepover" will feature:
- An exclusive performance from Jordin Sparks
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FRIDAY, Oct. 23 (HealthDay News) -- If you're tempted to raid your child's Halloween candy stash at the end of this month, here's one reason you might not have to restrain yourself.

Spanish researchers put 42 men and women on a diet that included 40 grams of unsweetened cocoa powder (about 1.4 ounces) mixed with skim milk daily, or plain skim milk. After one month, those who drank the cocoa-flavored milk had lower levels of inflammatory markers associated with heart disease than those drinking the milk alone.

That result was critical because the participants, whose average age was about 70, were at high risk of cardiovascular disease because they had diabetes and three or more risk factors for heart disease, including smoking, high blood pressure, high levels of LDL "bad" cholesterol (more than 160 milligrams per deciliter), low levels of HDL "good" cholesterol (below 35 milligrams per deciliter), obesity or a family history of early coronary heart disease.

The inflammatory markers, called adhesion molecules, are proteins that cause white blood cells to stick to the walls of the arteries, which can lead to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques, explained Shelley McGuire, an associate professor of food science and nutrition at Washington State University and a spokeswoman for the American Society for Nutrition.

"One of the major strengths of the study was they were measuring adhesion molecules, which we have recently learned are very important in the formation of atherosclerosis," McGuire said. "Another strength is that the study was randomized and controlled. Because of this, we can pretty confidently say there was something in the cocoa powder that had an effect."

The researchers also found that the cocoa powder group had an increase in HDL cholesterol, which can help reduce levels of LDL cholesterol and has been shown to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant properties.

The study is published in the November issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

During the study, participants didn't take additional vitamins or supplements, and the only cocoa-containing products they consumed were those provided by researchers.

Previous research has suggested chocolate may be beneficial for heart health because it contains anti-inflammatory chemicals called polyphenols. Polyphenols are also found in wine, coffee and tea, along with fruits and vegetables such as apples, broccoli, onions, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, strawberries, plums and red grapes, said Connie Diekman, director of university nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis.

"One of the best ways to get plenty of polyphenols is to consume lots of fruits and vegetables," Diekman said.

The researchers noted the anti-inflammatory effects derived from cocoa were modest compared to those observed for other foods rich in polyphenols, such as wine.

And before you start inhaling candy bars, which are high in fat and calories, researchers noted that study participants were given non-fat, sugar-free cocoa powder and skim milk. Even then, they gained a small amount of weight.

In the study, the chocolate milk contained about 136 calories. If adding cocoa to your diet, be sure to reduce calories somewhere else, or get some extra exercise.

"My recommendation, as a registered dietitian, would be for people to look at cocoa -- whether in the form of cocoa or chocolate -- as a part of a healthful eating plan, not a magic bullet for reducing inflammation," Diekman said. "If including cocoa and small amounts of chocolate in an otherwise healthful eating plan helps people enjoy what they eat and stick with that plan, then these things can fit."

In findings that should come as no surprise, researchers noted that "adherence to the dietary protocol was excellent."

More information

The National Confectioners Association has more on cocoa.
SOURCES: Connie Diekman, M.Ed., R.D., director, university nutrition, Washington University, St. Louis; Shelley McGuire, Ph.D., associate professor, food science & human nutrition, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., and spokeswoman, American





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jennymartin116 said...
October 13, 2009 1:17 PM

What a cool idea--I hate arguing about snacks!

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Grand Prize: $1,500, Nintendo Wii console, Wii Sports and Fit games, Wii Fit ankle weight set, one-year subscription to winner’s choice of Lucky, InStyle, Working Mother, Women’s Health or SELF Magazine and entry to one Aflac Iron Girl Event in 2010 (ARV $2,285).
Second Prize: $1,000, Nintendo Wii game console, Wii Fit game and one-year subscription to the winner’s choice of Lucky, InStyle, Working Mother, Women’s Health or SELF Magazine (ARV $1,540).
Third Prize: $500, Nintendo Wii game console, Wii Fit game and one-year subscription to the winner’s choice of Lucky, InStyle, Working Mother, Women’s Health or SELF Magazine (ARV $1,000).


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