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Category: Healthy Living
Healthy Living is where you can find more about how to live a healthy and sustainable lifestyle as well as how to better your emotional health. There are so many factors in our daily lives that all contribute to our overall health – nutrition, environment, products, stress, relationships, etc. – it is important for us to take a holistic look at how we can better our health in all we do.
Each week we will invite healthy living pros to come share tips and tricks we can all use to create a better environment for ourselves, our families and largely our world. Moms move the world: let’s make it a healthier one!
The Mommybites’ Healthy Living section is co-hosted by Mott’s and Mommybites. This partnership does not influence the content, topics or posts made on this blog. We always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on all topics, products, and services.
Tips for Keeping Your Home Clean during COVID-19
Keeping your home clean is incredibly important during this pandemic to ensure that you and your family stay safe and healthy. Here are some great tips on how to keep your home clean while stuck inside all day!
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: Grandparents, Is It Time to Recalculate?
During this turbulent and unpredictable time, Dr. Gramma Karen has some great tips and information for grandparents and their relationships with grandkids.
Grandparents Worry about Depression and Anxiety in College Students
Dear Dr. Gramma Karen, My husband and I are grandparents with grandchildren in college. Although they appear to be handling their experiences fine, we are becoming alarmed by the many articles in the media about the increase in anxiety, depression, and suicides among college students. One of our friends who has similar concerns about this […]
Using Labor Mantras and Birth Affirmations for Pain Management
Sometimes in class when I announce we are going to work on mantras as a pain management tool, I get some eye rolling, as if I am asking the students to start bowing down to Buddha. While mantras in their true sense are from the Vedic Hinduism period and chanted in sanskrit, the mantras we […]
Food Allergies on the Rise: This Is How to Reduce the Risk
Food allergies are becoming more and more common nowadays. Here is how to tell if your kid is having some sort of reaction to something they ate.
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: An Interview with Deborah Zeigler
Check out Dr. Gramma Karen’s interview with her colleague, Deb Zeigler, a Gerontologist!
This Is How to Apply Naegele’s Rule to Predict a Due Date
Yesterday, we had a woman in class who was one day past her due date. She had a look of defeat on her face and was completely unsettled by the situation. She explained that her first baby was two weeks early so she had expected the same would be true the second time around. There […]