I See The Potential
Healthy eating, nutrition, and understanding what food labels are REALLY saying were all topics covered in our grocery shopping tour with guest, Kimberly Lord Stewart. Ms. Stewart is the author of Eating Between the Lines: The Supermarket Shopper’s Guide to the Truth Behind Food Labels. She is the recipient of two 2004 Association of Food Journalist awards [...]
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Not sure how I missed this story last month but wanted to make sure that you didn’t …. Millions of Michigan consumers have paid higher health insurance premiums over the last three years because Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan forced at least 70 hospitals statewide to charge its competitors more, according to a lawsuit [...]
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Came across a product – aptly named – “Smelly Washer” that I saw recommended in our local Metro Parent magazine. Not that it’s a problem at OUR house …. but I might go out and pick up a bottle of this product tonight … you know to test, for research reasons but NOT because it’s [...]
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Tried out the new McDonald’s smoothie the other night and fell in love with it. I’d spent a couple of hours moving furniture and a variety of boxes in the heat and was feeling pretty whipped. I was looking for a quick cold, sweet drink to kind of recharge my battery and figured I’d worked [...]
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In the game of chess the most abundant, least powerful, most easily sacrificed and least valuable piece is the pawn. Unlike the King (who’s protection is the key to the game) the pawn is not a piece you really worry too much about losing. In fact, the pawn’s real value comes from the fact that [...]
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In January there was a recall of Tylenol products. In April there was a recall of Tylenol products In July we have ….. (drum roll please) ANOTHER recall of Tylenol products. I’m not sure but this is starting to look like a quarterly action for Johnson and Johnson. Actually it’s worse than a quarterly occurrence because this [...]
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SpaghettiOs, frozen dinners pulled from shelves 15 Million Pounds Of SpaghettiO’s are being recalled (some frozen dinners from Marie Callender too) because somebody screwed up and didn’t realize that a cooker wasn’t working correctly.
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This weekend we’re doing a show that Staci has really been wanting to do for a while and is really excited to share with you. In the summer we’re bombarded with the suntan, sunblock, sun lotion argument … So what’s a parent to do when it comes to keeping their family safe in the sun? [...]
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Radiation is all around us in our techno world. Reducing our exposure to it is obviously a goal for all of us – especially for those little ones around us that we’re trying to protect. Turns out the biggest source isn’t that tv, cell phone, video game or microwave it’s …. our doctors ?
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The biggest challenge with Gluten Free is that, especially in the beginning, it means taste free and giving up the stuff you love. Maybe not …. Gluten Free Pie Crust: Impossibly Easy | Gluten Free Cooking School Gluten Free Pizza Recipe | Gluten Free Cooking School Hershey Pie with a Rice Cereal Crust | Gluten [...]
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I support the idea of Autism Insurance legislation. But I’ll confess that I struggle with it…quite a bit actually. I consider myself a libertarian leaning conservative so in my opinion the smaller, less intrusive we can get our government to be the better. So, for obvious reasons my support of the idea of mandated Autism [...]
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Gerard Mantese (Mantese, Honigman, Rossman and Williamson) and John J. Conway are on the front lines of the Autism Insurance fight in the state of Michigan. However, unlike those that are fighting for legislation to require Autism coverage these lawyers are fighting in the courtrooms to get the Insurance companies to cover the children that, [...]
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Is your family (or are your kids) Red Dye #40 free (did you know that stuff is a derivative of coal)? Here’s an interesting recipe that allows you to make Red Velvet Cake / Cupcakes and you’ll never guess how this Mom got the red naturally …… she used beets! Beets in cake? Hey, she [...]
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On Sunday June 6th we discussed the raging debate over Autism Insurance. It’s a battle raging in the courts, classrooms, therapy centers, doctors offices, legislator’s offices ….. and living rooms across this country, including right here in Michigan. The battle is being fought by parents on two fronts. On the first front is the push [...]
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We’re surrounded by technology and it’s becoming even more ingrained in every little facet of our day (at least that’s what my Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Squidoo, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, 7 email accounts, Ipod, Droid, GPS and Laptop would lead me to believe) . Between texting, pinging, poking, facebooking, emailing, calling, posting, tweeting, buzzing and favoriting [...]
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