Each week of this campaign I have thought "boy, I learned a ton this week..." and that is even MORE true this week. My mind was blown learning about how unsafe even our laundry detergents are! So where was I before this campaign on chemicals? I realized one day, while cleaning the shower, I was STANDING in bleach. Yes. Our shower is HUGE, it's …
Eating Clean: How to Avoid Toxins in Your Food
For most of human history, people have eaten relatively simple diets. Food came from whatever you could catch, kill, pick, or grow--from nature. The only manipulation was via mixing those ingredients and then either cooking, curing, drying, pickling or some other type of basic preservation. These days, the picture is much more complicated. Many …
Mamavation Detoxify From Harmful Chemicals Boot Camp Launch Twitter Party
The purpose of the Mamavation Mom Boot Camp this summer is to detoxify three moms from harmful chemicals in their home environment. We have partnered with Healthy Child Healthy World to bring a very special boot camp to social media. Come watch and learn how this can be done through food and nutrition, personal care products, indoor air quality, …
#40Days Water Challenge Widget Visa Card Giveaway
I'm drinking water. Lots of it. And I'm doing it for a good cause, Blood:Water 40 Days of Water. Drink water for 40 days and save your extra beverage money. Then donate that money to Blood:Water so they can build wells in Uganda. It's a win win! Good for you, good for the environment, good for your health, and good for your karma. The …
Surprising & Scary Health Findings of 2012
2012 was an incredible year. I had a baby, protested against the Strong 4 Life billboards and had them removed, fought for labeling genetically modified ingredients in California, spoke at Fitcation and BloggyCon, made some incredible new friends, and continued to changes lives everyday though Mamavation. Blessings abound. As I was looking back, …
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 …
Fitcation–A Fitness Vacation for Moms
What exactly is Fitcation? Fitcation is about spending time with other women who are into "imperfect" health...and learning more about it. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" …
FDA Wants To Regulate All Health Apps. What Does This Mean?
Is an app that provides you with a daily reminder to take a pill the same as an app that a doctor uses to calculate the correct dosage for a prescription? Obviously not, but the FDA thinks they should be regulated the same way. Just looking at the list of Health and Fitness Apps in the iTunes store, you can see how the market for these products …
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 …
Bloggers LOVE their Coffee AND It’s Good for Them
Every morning it seems I'm on twitter at about 6:30am (that's PST while some of you are listening to this at 9:30am EST) talking about needing espresso by IV infiltrated through my veins so I can start my day faster. I literally look like the "walking dead" and feel the same way without my morning cup of joe. As the coffee starts to enter my …
Ode to My Vagina: My Dear Sweet Va J-J
Because I'm seven months pregnant, I thought poking fun at my vagina would give me some comfort. Pretty soon, it's not going to be funny anymore. Let's laugh while it is... My dear sweet Va J-J I can't see you anymore Where have you gone? I know you are there because you got me into this mess in the first place You can't hide on …
