Are you looking for better nutrition in the food you already eat? Or a way to feed your family foods that are not only healthy and good for the gut but also can be made in batches and last? Then you should look into fermented vegetables. What is Fermenting? Fermenting, or culturing, is a process that preserves foods by introducing bacteria to …
Are Feminine Care Products Making You Sick? What Every Woman Needs to Know
As breast cancer awareness month ends, moms everywhere should know about another danger lurking in our homes: feminine care products, which may be making us sick. These must-have tools that every woman needs can harbor unsafe chemicals. The FDA has categorized tampons and sanitary pads as medical devices. They made this categorization thanks to …
Toxic Vitamins: How to Pick a Supplement that’s Clean for Your Family
When you embark on a real food journey, part of that trip means making sure your family is getting enough the right vitamins and minerals. To ensure that we are, most of us take a multivitamin, but beware: not all supplements are created equal. In fact, some toxic vitamins even contain ingredients that you have probably been trying to …
Top 5 Benefits of Hypnotherapy
Wellness is all about overall health, of the body, mind, and spirit. What better way to achieve this than to tap into your mind to make necessary changes? I spoke with Aimee Fuller, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, to learn the benefits of hypnotherapy and how it can help improve your life. Aimee shared her top 5 benefits of hypnotherapy, and …
After Asbestos: Surviving Mesothelioma
This week on Mamavation TV, we will again be talking about dangerous toxins that may be in your home. We will cover how to stay safe, even during home renovations. This topic would not be complete without discussing asbestos, a known carcinogen. Mesothelioma is the aggressive form of cancer caused by inhalation and exposure to asbestos affecting …
Solutions to Remove Toxin Exposure
This past Monday on Mamavation TV, our guest was author and environmentalist, Rick Smith. He, along with Bruce Lourie, co-wrote the best-selling book Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World. This follow-up to 2009's Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health, takes on …
Remove the Toxins with Toxin Toxout
Did you know that there are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commercial products? That means that every day, we are bombarded by toxic chemicals and ingredients that could be (or rather are most likely) wreaking havoc on our bodies. This week on Mamavation TV, we'll be talking about practical strategies to remove the toxins from our bodies and …
Why Your Diet May Be Killing You: How to Safely Detox Your Body
Weight loss is usually a good thing. And no matter what method you choose to accomplish that goal, for many of us, it's a necessary priority on our road to good health. But before you start on that weight loss program,* you should know that you may be doing more damage than good if you're not concentrating on how to safely detox your body — and you …
Railroad Tracks: Why Being Careful Around Them Is A Smart Move
I grew up around the Railroad. My father was a Locomotive Engineer for Southern Pacific for 30 years. The Railroad has been good to my family. But I remember some days when my father would come home shaking and in tears. Someone had died. And it was the train that killed them. Because the train can't stop. Not for at least one mile. And my …
Top 50 Most Inspirational Healthy Tweeps 2012
Once again Mamavation has had the honor to put out the Top 50 Most Influential Healthy Tweeps. This list is different than before. This year all decisions were handled in a panel with Mamavation Leadership members and Diets In Review. Thank you to everyone who nominated their favorites. We split the list in 5 parts: Fitness, Food, Weight Loss, …
Top 50 Most Influential Healthy Tweeps 2012
Mamavation has done a social media list of the Top 50 Most Influential Healthy Tweeps for two years in a row. This list ends up getting lots of traffic every year by brands and bloggers because the fitness/health niche is still generally new and in it's infancy. We are just starting to get organized and professionalize ourselves. Most of us still …
You Know You Are Pregnant When….Blogger RoundUp
I'm 35 weeks pregnant and very ready to deliver. This is my 3rd pregnancy, so this time I have more humor, aches and pains, and less stress about the entire thing. But I thought it would be funny to get some additional input from blogger friends about their pregnancy. I put out a call on Facebook and this is what happened. Most of it was quite …