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  • DR. LAURA: Why It's Important to Eat with Your Kids

    Some years back, I remember a television actor making a public service announcement suggesting parents have dinner with their kids maybe once or twice a week. I was flabbergasted - there actually had to be a public service announcement to tell people this?!   Then I realized that in our socie...
  • Four in 10 infants lack strong parental attachments

    Source: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs   In a study of 14,000 US children, 40 percent lack strong emotional bonds -- what psychologists call 'secure attachment' -- with their parents that are crucial to success later in life, according to a new...
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  • The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead

    There is a jingle that goes: "The whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead!" Bread has been called the "staff of life." Unfortunately these days most folks consume grain in its refined state and this staple contains little to no nutritive properties and cannot support animal or human life. Wheat i...
  • Infants Fed Solid Food Too Soon

    DOUGLAS QUENQUA / New York Times   Despite growing warnings from pediatricians about feeding newborns anything other than breast milk or formula, many mothers appear to be introducing solid food well before their babies’ bodies can handle it, says a study published Monday in the journal...
  • Soft Drinks aren't soft on your health!

    One Soda a Day Raises Stroke Risk 83% Wednesday, October 24, 2012  By Sylvia Booth Hubbard   Women who drink just one fizzy drink each day dramatically raise their risk of suffering a deadly stroke, according to researchers at Osaka University, and the risk applies to both sweetened ...