Should Your Workout Buddy Be Your Partner?

Should Your Workout Buddy Be Your Partner?

Love / Love Tips

There are numerous benefits of having a person who will keep you motivated during a workout. Studies show that people who have a workout buddy are more inclined to stick with a program than those who don’t. But should that person be your spouse or significant other? It sounds like…

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Mix it Up: Teaching Kids about Diversity

Mix it Up: Teaching Kids about Diversity

Moms / Mom Tips

As much as we want to teach kids to be colorblind and oblivious to other people’s differences, kids are wired to notice when people don’t look, act or live the same way they do. Even babies can recognize physical differences in people when they’re shown pictures. But what they’re not…

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Encourage Healthy School Habits

Encourage Healthy School Habits

Moms / Mom Tips

Let’s face it: Kids in close quarters like classrooms are going to spread all kinds of germs to one another, right? Probably, but when you encourage healthful habits, kids tend to miss less school because of illnesses they’ve passed on to one another. The top illnesses that keep kids home…

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Prevent Food-borne Illnesses

Prevent Food-borne Illnesses

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

Food safety is something that every cook needs to take seriously. With 81 million cases of food-borne sickness occurring every year in the United States, it’s important to understand how food poisoning can be prevented. Thankfully, most people who get sick as a result of contaminated food recover quickly and…

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Frugal Outdoor Cooking

Frugal Outdoor Cooking

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

Firing up the grill is a great way to cook in the summer! Here are a few grilling tips and a couple of recipes, too. For great grilled burgers, form the patty gently. Smashing the meat forces out moisture. Sear both sides of the burger on both sides, then move…

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Dive into Pool Safety

Dive into Pool Safety

Moms / Mom Tips

Who says there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues? You’ll be hard-pressed to find a child who doesn’t enjoy spending time by the pool. For most families, it’s the highlight of the summer — both fun and affordable. While it’s great that you and your children are looking forward…

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Beneficial Foods for High Blood Pressure

Beneficial Foods for High Blood Pressure

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

It appears that the medical profession the world over are all too quick to prescribe drugs rather than to suggest natural methods of lowering high blood pressure (hypertension). Most of these medicines can have undesirable side effects, so it is a good idea to look for natural methods. It has…

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What’s Your Astrological Sign?

What’s Your Astrological Sign?

Horoscope / Astrology

If you are reading this, you have probably already taken the time to figure out what your “sign” is. Chances are that, not only do you know your own sign, but that you know all of the signs of your friends, your family and all of the people you’ve had…

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Is Your Child Overscheduled?

Is Your Child Overscheduled?

Moms / Activities

Let’s face it; we live in a busy world. Despite modern conveniences and advances in technology, it seems that today’s families are busier than ever. We try to squeeze in as much as we can in a day under the assumption that the more we get done, the happier we’ll…

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