Health

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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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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Oh No Not SpaghettiO’s Too!

by Steve on 19, June, 2010

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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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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Evidently having four product recalls in 6 months isn’t a good thing – “The matter of a series of Tylenol recalls has been referred to the Food and Drug Administration’s crime division, an FDA official told lawmakers Thursday.” and the child’s recall, it turns out it was because of “…some of the products could contain [...]

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Two great (and helpful) articles that I ran across this morning: Dr. Dean Ornish: How to Transform Your Lifestyle and Your Life (Part One) Mark Hyman, MD: 5 Simple Steps to Cure IBS

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It’s amazing how much technology (even going back to the good ol’ lightbulb) changes not only our lives but our bodies.  It’s even more fascinating though how adaptive our bodies are (whether we realize it or not). How Your Tech Could Be Resting Your Internal Clock

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How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe? This week’s show was a doubleheader with two great interviews both dealing with that same question. First up was the husband and wife team of Carolyn and Andrew Gammicchia founders of the organization L.E.A.N. On Us whose stated mission is to: Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Dr. Christine Wood is on a mission to help us all have healthier kids.  Of course she’s a doctor, so that shouldn’t really be a surprise.  However, something that might surprise you are some of the following statistics: American children get 40% of their calories from extra fat and added sugars. Podcast: Play in new [...]

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We shared the air with health care advocate and Vaccine expert Mary Tocco on April 18th and Mary shared with us a TON of useful information, stats, facts and figures about the US Vaccine program. I know this is one of those lightning rod topics.  It seems the whole Podcast: Play in new window | [...]

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Study:  Spanking Leads To More Aggressive Behavior – Time Magazine Spanking Kids Makes Them More Aggressive, Defiant & Prone To Tantrums – NY Daily News Spanking Leads To More Aggressive Kids – NPR Spanking Toddlers Leads To Aggressive Behavior – Baltimore Sun Spanking Is (Still) Wrong – NY Times ~ Motherlode Blog Spanking Your Kid [...]

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Great interviews this week! Jim Amick from Nordic Naturals, who is one of the show sponsors but he’s one of the show sponsors because we’ve been long time fans of Nordic Naturals Fish Oils,  joined us to tell us a little bit about fish oils and the Nordic Natural products. You hear all the time [...]

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A recipe from Jill Bloomfield’s (this week’s guest on The My Great Kid Radio Show) cookbook ….. Matzoh brei Matzoh brei (pronounced MAHT-zoh BRY) is a fun-to-eat breakfast. It’s a lot like traditional French toast, only it’s made with matzoh instead of bread. “We wait all year to eat matzoh brei! We like it for [...]

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An eight year old with dyslexia goes to school day after day and gets bullied. Bullying classmates call him stupid, dumb, pick on him …. you know the drill. One day they pull down his pants in public. Eight year old has had enough and jumps out the window of the second floor.

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