Using Baby Signs to Communicate with Preverbal Infants
Children develop hand-eye coordination long before they develop language skills they also understand language before they can use it . These two factors combine to make signs and singnals an ideal option for intercating with babies
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Why Natural Free-Range Meat & Poultry May Harm Your Health
If you’re into a healthy lifestyle, you probably already know that in order for meat and poultry to be labeled as certified organic, the animal feed must actually be certified organic. This means that small farms that don’t feed their animals unnecessary antibiotics or inject...
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Is a Low-Fat Vegan Diet a Healthy Choice for Mamas and Babies?
With so much information available to us these days via blogs, magazines, TV, books, ebooks, online news sites, online forums, newsletters, and various “experts” doling out nutritional advice at yoga studios, health foods stores, community gathering centers, bookstores, etc., it can be confusing to sort...
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Tax Dollars Pay for War on Health Food: Dairy Farm Shut Down by Feds
The FDA has been working for two years at the War on Health Food to shut down an Amish dairy farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to health-conscious individuals in the Washington, D.C. area. This month a judge banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his...
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Re-imagining the Family Plate
We nourish them in the womb; adding, avoiding, watching and waiting. We draw them to the breast and marvel at the continued connection between lives and bodies, need and nutrition. We near that time of first “real” foods and look forward to sharing the table...
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Peace of Mind with Co-sleeping
There was absolutely no way I was going to put my newborn baby in a room all by himself – my maternal instinct insisted it was so lonely and wrong to have our baby in a big room all alone. So I set up a...
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Getting Good Milk Shouldn’t Be So Hard!
I grew up in Texas and as a child I clearly remember driving with Mom out of town to pick up our milk from a nearby farm. She grew up on a farm where raw milk was a staple, so she was always excited to...
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The Fluoride Deception: Pregnancy and Childhood
For many years the public has been told that fluoride is needed to prevent cavities. Many cities and towns across the country fluoridate the water supply. Dentists and doctors across the nation often recommend fluoride, and support the fluoridation of water. This practice is misleading...
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The Cause of Disease & Healing Disease
Summary: Disease is not caused exclusively by germs that enter the body from the outer world, nor is it usually caused by genetics as defective DNA inherited from our parents. Disease is caused by our modernized way of living, toxins in the environment and in...