Help for Parents Coping with Divorce, Adoption, Teenager and Relationship Issues

Common foods such as apples, artichokes and apricots give good health benefits to our diets. Are you getting enough of these “A’s” in your diet?
Apples
Caution:  Mom and Dad, as always, be careful about giving young children, toddlers, or the elderly anything that could be difficult to chew or become lodged in their throat. Good news, applesauce is [...]

If you find yourself eating standing up, in a rush, or alone, please consider these tips to help your meals become a time of relaxation and nutrition.

Plan meals for regular times during the day rather than snacking.  If you do snack, select fresh fruits, vegetables, and other high-nutrient foods.
Strive to make meals pleasurable, even if [...]

All parents want their kids to be healthy and happy.  That begins with good food choices, which begin at home.  What are we eating in front of our children?  What are we serving them?
In order to provide healthy meals and snacks for our families, we should make sure we have a working familiarity with food [...]

In today’s rapidly changing world of health care there is one certainty, what you do to maintain or improve your health has a much greater impact on your quality of life than advances in medical science and the treatment of disease.
The most effective ways to reduce disease and disability are those that address your lifestyle [...]

Does your lifestyle put your health in danger?  What are you modeling for your children?  If you’re divorced and having multiple sex partners, how do you think that affects your children?
Are you at risk for AIDS?
HIV RISK
Unprotected sex with multiple sex partners puts you at risk for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.  There is [...]

Parents, here is more information about getting healthy and staying healthy!  Think about what you eat, what you do, and what might need to change to help you feel your best as you parent your children and provide for them and your loved ones.
Think Low Fat!
I know it was all the craze some years ago, [...]

Today, we have more information about health, proper nutrition, and natural supplements than ever before.  In fact, there is so much health information at our fingertips that it is over-whelming.  Where do you being to get healthy and stay healthy?  Stick to basics.  Start with the simple things in your everyday life, in your kitchen, [...]

Well, who isn’t stressed?  You can’t avoid stress, but you can try.  At least try to control and manage it.  We can’t be falling apart over everything and still parent, clean house, take care of job, kids, and friends and family.  And, ourselves.  Something has to give, and you can control more stress than you [...]

Depression.  Don’t you hate the word and the feeling?  We all have it now and then, and often it is just situational.  And, that’s good, because it’s within our ability and control to make some improvement in our mood.  Let’s talk about depression.
Major depression is potentially life-threatening physical and mental illness.  The classic symptoms are [...]

Taking care of you so that you can be your healthiest and best and most energetic, is a very important part of parenting or being a solid partner in a loving relationship with your spouse, partner, or other family members.  If you neglect yourself, you are sending a message to others that you are not [...]