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Healthy Snacks for Hungry Kids

Healthy Snacks for Hungry Kids

It is a fact that more kids than ever are more overweight, or obese from a changing diet selection. It is also a fact, that kids will come home after school stating they are hungry and want something to eat.

Lemons

Lemons

Everyone should have their own lemon tree. Nature’s wonder curative fruit, great for weight loss goals, to reduce anemia risks, heart disease risk, reduces or the formation of kidney stones and is linked to acting as a cancer preventative.

Food label Coding

Food label Coding

Have you ever wondered what that attached label on a food item means? The following list contains the numbers that accompany those stickers and labels and each one is explained alongside that number.

Children and Migraines

Children and Migraines

Do you know if your child suffers from migraines? I’m not sure when I began to suspect migraine instead of another ‘24hour bug’ in my son Alex, but somewhere along the line, I noticed a pattern developing.

Dangerous Decibel Damage for Kids

Dangerous Decibel Damage for Kids

International research has shown that children under the age of six are much more sensitive to noise and can sustain acute cochlear damage far easier than in more mature people.

Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Disorder

This is a term commonly linked to children who are incapable of concentrating, especially at school. Hence the name Attention deficit Disorder.

Killing the Common Earache

Killing the Common Earache

In 1928, Richard Simmons, MD, hypothesised that cold and fu viruses enter through the ear canal - naturally this was dismissed.

Foods Tricking your Tongue

Foods Tricking your Tongue

Food ingredients in manufactured foods are being altered to stimulate different taste buds – causing concern in the way of food is being manipulated, especially amongst convenience foods.

Pesticides in Food

Pesticides in Food

Results of the Total Diet Survey (third quarter), which sampled fruit and vegetables to see if they contained pesticides and heavy metal residues, gave the lie to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s spin that our food is free from residues.