Heart Disease & Women: Do You Know The Symptoms? National Wear Red Day

I don’t really remember my grandma but what memories I do have are filled with joy and happiness.
Unfortunately, my grandmother died suddenly of a massive heart attack at the age of 58 when I was only 10 years old.  As hard as it was to lose my grandmother, I think of how awful it was [...]

Exercise Tips for Losing Weight while Home with the Kids

Moms, do you sometimes get a bit frustrated when you just can’t seem to find the time to go to the gym or do your workouts because of family commitments?  You’re not alone!  Here are five exercise tips for losing weight while home with the kids that are sure to help because any physical activity [...]

Common Sleep Problems In Kids

My 7 year old daughter is always sleepy and her night time sleep habits are less than ideal.  It’s not unusual for her to visit me in the middle of the night when I’m feeding the baby or to hop in bed with me when my husband leaves for work at 4:00 a.m.  This has [...]

What’s Eating Your Kids?

Childhood obesity is a growing problem in our society.  Children are consuming less healthy foods and maintaining sedentary lifestyles.  According to the Mayo Clinic’s web site, complications of excess weight in our children can include the following problems, among others:

Type 2 diabetes
High blood pressure
Asthma and other respiratory problems
Sleep disorders
Eating disorders

Physical ramifications are discussed often in [...]

Home Remedies That Work

Home remedies are often the stuff of old wives’ tales or crazy concoctions that aren’t really effective.  However, sometimes grandma’s cure-all can do the trick to help ease common ailments.  Let’s take a look at some health-related problems and the home remedies that can lessen their symptoms.
Bee Stings – Meat tenderizer really will do the [...]

Children and Cough Medicine

Moms everywhere have heard the warnings about the use of cough medicine in children under six.  The FDA has acknowledged the fact that pediatricians see no benefit its use in young children and that countless ER visits in relation to children and cough meds have been documented; however, there is still no official ban on [...]

The Importance of Early Detection

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Did you know that the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month organization has been promoting the visibility of breast cancer issues and highlighting the importance of early detection for more than 20 years?
During menstruation, the breasts go through various changes.  Sometimes a lump may form, and in most of [...]

Meet Mary!

Hello!  I’m Mary Davis, the new health and wellness writer for Moms In a Blog.  I’m a freelance writer who lives in western Pennsylvania with my husband and three children.  My kids range in age from 6 months to 9 years.  They’re constantly teaching me something new.  When not caring for my brood, you’ll usually [...]

How to Teach Your Children about Heart Health

Have you looked around you lately? It is all around on us. It is mentioned on the media on a daily basis and we see it but are we aware of it? What am I talking about? It is childhood obesity, and epidemic that is growing and the statistics are grim. [...]

Tips for Sleepy Teens

Do you have a teen that stays up all night and has difficulties getting up for school? Who doesn’t right? A recent study by the National Sleep Foundation found that only 20 percent of teens actually got the recommended amount of sleep per night. The recommended amount they were studying was nine [...]

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