Children Health Articles

Children Health Articles

13 Jun

Living Up to YOUR Fitness Potential!

Posted in Health on 13.06.10

This article will focus not only on seeing the results that you want but is also about being the best that you can be! Many people limit themselves because their judgments are based upon what they see now in the mirror rather than on what lies underneath. They fail to look ahead. I believe it was Michelangelo who described seeing what was hidden under a slab of marble when he envisioned his sculptures. What then makes your work of art (your body that is) any different? Classical Conditioning ...

10 Jun

Public Health Agency of Canada recommendations for Avian Flu

Posted in Health on 10.06.10

At least one Canadian group formed after SARS hit Toronto is working with the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) and other organizations to help boost public safety. That group is the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), which was formed in 2004. It acts independently but is responsible to Canada's health minister. PHAC is in the midst of creating a pandemic plan for Canada, said Aggie Adamczyk, media relations officer with the agency. The plan ...

03 Jun

A Healthy Diet For Life

Posted in Health on 03.06.10

Having established that your body needs a well balanced diet, with a good supply of carbohydrates, especially high - fiber foods, water vitamins and minerals, and a certain amount of protein, fat and bacteria, you need to know how to put it into practice. Much media attention is focused on foods that one should not have, yet there has been very little to tell women how they can use food to enhance their life rather than make it more difficult. Forget the labels; every figure is relative ...

29 May

The Value Of The Mineral Selenium To Overall Health

Posted in Health on 29.05.10

In recent years, the value of the trace mineral selenium to overall health and well being has come to light. Many vital health benefits have come to be associated with maintaining sufficient levels of selenium in the body and recent study indicates that this mineral can play an important role in protecting the body from serious disease and illness. Selenium is especially important in the body's ongoing battle against free radical damage. In the body, selenium is the source of selenoproteins. ...

28 May

Fitness tips to suit your Body-Type

Posted in Health on 28.05.10

Genetics play the leading role in creating the basic shape of your body and you have to begin with being realistic, so that you can do the best you can, with what you have. Body type of an individual, is a word related to the metabolism and genetic pre-disposition towards gaining fat or muscle or staying lean. All of us are programmed by birth to be tall and long-limbed, petite and short limbed, small framed or big-boned or whatever. It is better for all of us to begin accepting the ...

27 May

Brain Power Versus Computer

Posted in Health on 27.05.10

Your brain uses almost 20% of all the oxygen you take into your lungs. Your blood carries the oxygen to your brain. This is why clogged arteries cause memory loss and organizational skills impairment. Today's society is a fast food society and fast foods are basically void of nutrients and full of artery clogging fats. You hear a great deal these days about information processing - usually has "new age technology" tacked onto the end of it usually referring to the revolution that has occurred ...

25 May

Reshape The Family Diet /Cyndi Thomas, ND

Posted in Health on 25.05.10

Reshape The Family Diet -- Avoid Dinnertime Trouble by Cyndi Thomas, ND When I announced that my family needed to change its diet somewhat... well, to say my children weren't as excited as me would be an understatement. More than once they cried: What? Salad again! When are we going to have some real food? My understanding reply was usually, "This is dinner...eat it or starve." After all, I had taken it upon myself to get my family in the best possible health -- NO MATTER WHAT! I had decided ...

23 May

Smoking and dental health are more intimately connected than you

Posted in Health on 23.05.10

b>Smoking and dental health are more intimately connected than you would imagine Imagine losing a portion of your cheek at the age of 18? Medical research indicates that smokers are six times more likely than nonsmokers to develop oral cancers. Even those addicted to smokeless tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco) can develop cancers of the cheek, gums and lining of the lips, increasing the risk by about 50 times. Oral cancer is in fact one of the most devastating effects of smoking. In fact, the ...

21 May

THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF CABBAGE

Posted in Health on 21.05.10

HEALTH BENEFITS OF CABBAGE: What cabbage has for you, what is it good for, what kinds are there, what to do with them. Sadly, most American households wrinkle their noses at the mere mention of this valuable, all powerful and sorely misunderstood vegetable. The word cabbage is usually enough to send children to their rooms with a myraid of excuses as to why they may not wish to eat their evening meal. While cabbage is a delicious and healthful staple in other countries, it is almost foreign ...

19 May

Healing Art for Children, Paintings That Heal™

Posted in Health on 19.05.10

Healing Art for Children, Paintings That Heal' Most parents, and caregivers spend a great deal of time, ensuring a healthy environment for their children. Healthy diets, clothing, conscious choice television, educational games, and carefully supervised schooling, friends and activities, all contribute to the wellbeing of your child. However, do you know that every ray of light consists of colors that have different wavelengths and energy frequencies? Do you know that those colors and the ...