Category: Health

April showers are sure to bring May flowers (and who doesn’t love to see their first lily blossom?), but if you suffer from seasonal allergies, you’re probably dreading those flowers and the pollen that comes along with them. I’m pretty lucky in that I’ve never actually had to suffer allergies (I do get a little…

There’s no reason that every household shouldn’t have at least a bag of Epsom salts in it – Not only are they dirt cheap (a super big bag of it usually runs you about five dollars), but they’re such a versatile product that they can end up saving you a ton of money! Until recently,…

As a child throughout the nineties, I can’t remember when we didn’t have margarine in the fridge. Never butter. TV, radio, and medical shows (I was a weird kid) all taught me exactly why that was too – Butter causes heart attacks, strokes, and all kinds of other things because fats are bad for you…

Now that the fall has come and the garden is officially empty once again, I’ve recently been thinking that I might not go through all of that again next year. Keeping up a garden is a lot of work; the weather and bugs can be incredibly unpredictable, and some of it ends up going to…

After an exceptionally long and brutal winter, Mother Nature has gracefully decided to bless the Northern Hemisphere with summertime weather finally. When that very last bit of snow finally melts, and the trees begin to bud once more, it’s as though everyone comes out of their hibernation mode and begins to bloom just as much…

Now that the summer has officially come and gone, it’s just a matter of time until absolutely everything is covered in a fluffy white blanket of snow (I have to admit that although I detest the winter season with the burning passion of a thousand suns, I do love the first couple of snowfalls. With…

Have you ever tried to eat yourself happy before? Here’s what I mean – It’s been a terribly long week; you’re stressed out, and you don’t know what else to do, so you mow down on a bag of Doritos or you manage to scarf back an entire pint of double chocolate brownie fudge ice…

It’s handy to have a first aid kit in your home that’s absolutely brimming with everything you need in case an emergency ever happens to strike your household (knock on wood that it doesn’t ever happen, of course, but some things are just inevitable. That inevitability tends to increase tenfold with the addition of children).…

I admit it, I care about my look, and I’m sure most people do. Besides the genes all of us inherit, our appearance is tightly linked to the state of our health. Unfortunately, our inherited genes also play an important role, making us prone to one health problem or another – without us having a…

I’m not completely sure that there’s anything more annoying than getting a batch of hiccups unless of course, you happen to get those hiccups on and off for an entire day or more – This recently happened to me: for almost a whole day I was getting the hiccups on and off (sometimes so bad…

With your little ones beginning to gear up for the school year, you’re probably relieved about finally getting a break again. But one thing is almost inevitable: at some point or another, your little one is going to come home from school complaining of ear pain and you’ll be dealing with a (possibly nasty) ear…

Are you someone who picks through every nutritional label at the grocery store with a fine toothcomb, or do you rely on your gut feeling and what you know? If you happen to fall into the latter category, you might be in for a big surprise: not everything that’s supposed to be “healthy” is good…

Every week, it seems as though we’re being told that we absolutely should or shouldn’t eat a certain something, and it can be rather challenging to keep up with it all. One of the things that seems to stay on the safe side of the fence regardless of the fad of the week is rice,…

Regardless of whether you’re suffering from a migraine, you’ve recently pulled a muscle in your shoulder, or you have to deal with a chronic condition like sciatica regularly, when the pain hits us, we’ll do just about anything and everything we can to try and get rid of it. We’ve already discussed a bunch of…