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Health & Wellness

Dallas Baby-Led Feeding Classes for February

February 1, 2010

Baby-led feeding is an approach to solid food introduction that allows baby to explore and discover whole food on their own with parental supervision.

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Seeking NEW Placenta Encapsulation Specialists in Dallas Fort Worth Texas for Training

November 14, 2009

Placenta Encapsulation is a new and rapidly growing postpartum care profession. Through the extensive efforts of Jodi Selander, founder of Placenta Benefits.info (PBi), and her network of Placenta Encapsulation Specialist throughout the United States placenta encapsulation is becoming a well known and highly sought after postpartum care service. First looked at as an on-the-fringe trend, [...]

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Study Suggests Westernized Diet Leads To Obesity Via Gut Microbes

November 12, 2009

Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD
From: Medical News Today.com
US researchers who transplanted human intestinal microbes into germ-free mice and then switched their diet from a low-fat plant-based one to a more Westernized diet, high in fat and sugars, found that within one day obesity-linked microbes were thriving in the gut and the mice eventually became obese.
The [...]

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Synthetic DHA and ARA in Baby Formula is Causing Infant Illness

November 10, 2009

by: Ethan Huff
From NaturalNews.com
For years, baby formula manufacturers have been fortifying and reformulating their blends in an effort to poise their products as equal or superior to natural breast milk. Beginning in 2002, many producers began supplementing their mixtures with synthetic forms of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA), the long-chain fatty acids naturally [...]

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Get the Most Nutrition from Your Veggies…with a little FAT!

October 27, 2009

by Allison Abrey
From NPR.org
Tomatoes are certainly nutritious — a good source of the antioxidants lycopene and beta-carotene. But consider this: if you eat a tomato without adding a little fat — say a drizzle of olive oil — your body is unlikely to absorb all these nutrients.
Scientists at Iowa State University figured this out a [...]

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Baby Bond author signs books in Houston

September 22, 2009

Baby Bond (a brand new, updated version of Baby Matters: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby) author Dr. Linda Folden Palmer will be speaking to Houston residents at a book signing at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Want to organize a presentation for your group right here in Dallas/Fort [...]

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Home births safer than hospital births for low-risk pregnancies

September 2, 2009

From PhD in Parenting
Where is the safest place to give birth? If you are at a low risk of complications, then a midwife assisted home birth is your best bet according to a new Canadian study by Dr. Patrician Janssen from the University of British Columbia.
According to the CBC, the study found that the rate [...]

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Natural ways to cure a plugged duct

August 28, 2009

Fever, throbbing pain, breast soreness, throbbing pain, more fever, throbbing pain … A plugged duct can be not only a (throbbing) pain but also throw a monkey wrench into your nursing relationship. But you don’t need to scamper off to the doctor; it’s absolutely possible to cure a plugged duct through natural means at home.
According [...]

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Texas docs not routinely recommending HPV vaccine

August 27, 2009

Fewer than half of Texas doctors do not routinely recommend HPV vaccinations for their patients, according to an article published earlier this month at Med Page Today. Of 1,122 survey participants, just 48.5% said they always recommend HPV vaccines to girls, Jessica Kahn, MD, of the University of Cincinnati, and colleagues reported in the August [...]

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Autographed No-Cry Solution books giveaway

August 21, 2009

Be one of two lucky winners of a full set of five of parenting author Elizabeth Pantley’s No-Cry Solution books –- autographed!

The No-Cry Nap Solution *NEW*
The No-Cry Sleep Solution (for babies)
The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers & Preschoolers
The No-Cry Discipline Solution
The No-Cry Potty Training Solution

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