Month: May 2018
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Children’s Health…An Inconvenient Truth….What Moms Can Do NOW!
Children’s Health…An Inconvenient Truth….what moms can do NOW! Remember when you first saw Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that depicted the dire state of our environment due to global warming? It wasn’t easy to watch, but it did help many of us awaken to the facts and realize that as a result of the
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Natural Ways to to Boost a Child’s Immunity
Oct Mar Apr 01 2022 2024 2025 Adult Health , Healthy Kids , Prevention Natural Ways to to Boost a Child’s Immunity by Maureen H. McDonnell, RN May 2, 20185807 Views Just today, I saw about 10 different signs advertising the flu vaccine. I’ll never know why, instead of this massive ad campaign, physicians don’t
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Are There Safer Ways to Vaccinate Our Children?
Are There Safer Ways to Vaccinate Our Children? Maureen McDonnell, RN “There are unanswered questions about vaccine safety. We need studies on vaccinated populations based on various schedules and doses as well as individual patient susceptibilities that we are continuing to learn about. No one should be threatened by the pursuit of this knowledge. Vaccine
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What Can Be Done to Prevent Autism Now?
Although the mystery of the autism epidemic has not yet been solved, emerging science and reports from parents about specific treatments that have improved (or in some cases recovered) their ASD children have given us strong clues regarding ways to prevent and treat Autism Spectrum Disorders. Causation theories range from: it must be due to
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Raising Happy, Healthy Kids in a Toxic World
I don’t usually pull the “age card” (especially in our youth-oriented society), but I’m going to just put it out there and tell you that I am a grandmother of 7 kids (2 are in the photo) and I have been a pediatric registered nurse for 36 years! Now, neither of these admissions alone, or
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One of the Greatest Gifts You Can Give Your Child (& Yourself)
Get Healthy BEFORE You Get Pregnant… by Maureen McDonnell, RN We all know there are many factors at play in the days and weeks following conception that are crucial for the survival and healthy development of a fetus such as diet, stress, infection, tobacco use, environmental toxins, alcohol, drugs etc. But what we don’t often
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Stop the Insanity! The Over-Drugging of a Nation
Let me start this article by saying, that as a nurse, I have seen drugs used in extraordinarily positive and helpful ways. In emergency situations involving infection or serious injury, they literally save lives. But, I beg you to look at the alarming statistics (especially as they relate to psychiatric medications) and see for yourself,
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Saving Money, Eating Healthy
I know what you are thinking: “aren’t those two ideas mutually exclusive?” Actually, after 35 years of advocating healthy eating (and at the same time having to watch our family’s food budget), I can honestly say, “they are not!” Here’s why: When you take a portion of your hard earned money & invest it wisely
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Super Foods for a Healthy Family
I know the names Acai (pronounced ahh Sigh Eee), Cacao (pronounced Ca Cow) and Goji sound like exotic, foreign substances, but the truth is these are nutrient-dense “superfoods” that are rapidly gaining in popularity. And my prediction is, as more of us focus on ways to live longer, healthier lives, these strange sounding powders and berries
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Flushing out the Toxins
We have all come a long way in our awareness of the role the 87,000 chemicals that have been created in the last hundred years (which are mostly untested and unregulated) play in conditions ranging from Infertility, Autism, Cancer to Obesity. As a result of our understanding of just how detrimental these substances can be