11 Best Educational Apps & Web Sites for Kids
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Most pediatricians agree that a little bit of screen time each day is okay for kids. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children over 2 should be limited to 2 hours of “recreational screen time” per day. In our house, we try to limit recreational screen time to one hour per day, but because we homeschool our kids do a lot of educational work online. And they love it! Our kids race through their work so they can get to their computers.
Here are my picks for the best 10 educational web sites for kids:
1) Khan Academy
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 15, 2014 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Kathleen Berchelmann MD Tags: Perspectives Kids & Computers Source Type: blogs
Vegan Diet, Healthy Heart?
This post was authored by Kim A. Williams, MD, FACC, incoming president of the ACC, and originally appeared on MedPage Today. Physicians want to influence their patients to make lifestyle changes that will improve their health, but sometimes the roles … Continue reading →
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Source: ACC in Touch Blog - August 12, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Admin Tags: Special Topics guest post Source Type: blogs
What You Need to Say Yes to CLW
Here’s a detailed update about the upcoming Conscious Life Workshop, which kicks off in two weeks in Las Vegas. I’ve also sprinkled in some cool personal growth ideas to share, so this is actually a combination of promoting the workshop and a new article.
We now have 104 people 115 people (updated 8/12) signed up for CLW, which is absolutely terrific. That makes it the biggest 3-day workshop I’ve ever done. This will bring an amazing amount of transformational energy into the room.
The main purpose of this workshop is to help you bring into balance 3 core parts of your life:
Fulfilling Work –...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 8, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Balance Business Career & Work Consciousness & Awareness Goals & Goal Setting Motivation Passion Passive Income Personal Development Public Speaking Success Wealth & Money Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, August 8, 2014
From MedPage Today:
Ain’t No Sunshine in This Act. Robert Harbaugh, MD, just wanted to do the right thing.
Gut Bacteria May Aid Testing for Colon Cancer. Analysis of gut bacteria in stool samples improved detection of colon cancer or precancerous polyps by fives times compared with a standard fecal occult blood test (FOBT) and risk factors.
Meditation Helps Vets Improve Diabetes Control. Getting veterans to practice mindfulness meditation may help them relieve diabetes-related stress and ultimately improve their disease.
Vegan Diet Eases Diabetic Neuropathy Pain. A plant-based diet may help relieve diabetic nerve p...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Cancer Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Which Butter (or Spread) Is Better?
By Amy Campbell
The world of nutrition is often confusing, even for dietitians and other nutrition experts. Debates (and bickering) rage on about which diet is best for weight loss, how much carbohydrate a person with diabetes should have, and what kind of fat is best to eat.
It's not so easy these days to choose a spread for your morning toast or your baked potato. Years ago, folks had pretty much two choices: butter and margarine. Today, we have butter, light butter, whipped butter, stick margarine, vegetable oil spread, margarine with phytosterols, margarine with yogurt, and vegan margarine (just to name a few). How do ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - July 28, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
The Trouble with Protein for People with Diabetes
For some of us who have diabetes the trouble with protein is real. If we have existing kidney disease, we can’t handle a lot of protein. If we follow a vegan diet, the problem is to get enough protein.
But for most of us the trouble with protein is to know how much we need and whether we are getting too much. Many of us think that when we go on a very low-carb diet we have to boost the amount of protein we eat.
It’s... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - July 24, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Turn Toward the Problem
By Leo Babauta
Much of our lives is spent trying to ignore problems, not wanting to deal with them, procrastinating.
Bills are pushed to the side to deal with later.
People we have troubles with are avoided.
Work we don’t want to do is put off while we browse the Internet.
The diet is put off until tomorrow as we eat more junk.
Our insecurities are not admitted because we don’t want to think about them.
This kind of avoidance, unfortunately, doesn’t work. We put these things off and the problems only fester and grow worse. Bills become late and interest racks up and eventually we’ll have to deal wit...
Source: Zen Habits - July 18, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Happiness Source Type: blogs
OZ Naturals Vitamin C Serum – Look at the label
OZ Naturals Vitamin C Serum is the number one best selling beauty product on Amazon this week. Let’s look at the label to see how it works.
As you can see below Amazon only lists “key” ingredients whichs always makes us suspicious. We’d like to see ALL the ingredients in the formula! Having said that, our main concern is that the product uses the Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate form of Vitamin C which has been proven less effective (but also less irritating) than true Vitamin C. There’s only limited ex vivo animal testing which shows it penetrates skin. There is no data showing it converts to asco...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - July 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Claims Source Type: blogs
Dairy Free Vegan Cheese That Tastes Nice?
Dairy Intolerant?No Problem. Just like meat free alternatives the massive increase in veganism has resulted in not just the range and choice but the quality of vegan cheese to change dramatically.Now you can buy vegan cheeses that actually taste like cheese, melt like cheese, look like cheese, smell like cheese (well thankfully not quite as bad as the real stuff)Take another look at dairy free vegan cheese options next time you are in a health food store or search online.Vegan cheeses that taste like cow's cheese not vegan cheese!Nutritionists London (Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News)
Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - July 10, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: cheese dairy free cheese vegan vegan cheese vegetarian Source Type: blogs
Healthy Eating for Summer Barbecues
It’s that time of the year again – break out the grill! Nothing says summer like a backyard BBQ or a picnic in the park. It’s the perfect time to start flavoring up your favorite summer foods and drinks the healthy way! The key to creating a healthy summer BBQ is quality foods and ingredients.
Keep on reading to learn how to make your favorite summer foods healthy and flavorful.
Healthy Eating for Summer Barbecues on TV in Baltimore
I recently appeared on WBAL with ideas for flavorful and healthy summer foods and drinks. Watch this clip for my tips and ideas, and check out the highlights below.
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Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - July 9, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking food fruits health nutrition recipes eating healthy McCormick pistachios pom Real Deal All Natural Snacks summer summer BBQ summer snacks sunkist tv WBAL Source Type: blogs
Vegan CookBook Dairy Free Recipes A5 Book and On Kindle
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Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - July 7, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Banoffee pie book cake chef chocolate cookbook dairy free healthy recipe recipes vegan vegan diet vegetarian Source Type: blogs
Healthy Entertaining Ideas for the Fourth of July!
Nothing says 4th of July like watching fireworks and getting together with family and friends for a delicious barbecue! I recently appeared on Let’s Talk Live with fun and healthy food ideas to make your Fourth of July celebration taste great. Read on to learn how to flavor up your celebration the healthy way with quality foods and ingredients, or watch the full clip below.
Surprise Your Guests with an Unexpected Burger
Did you know that over 90% of American households have a jar of peanut butter? Peanuts and peanut butter do more than just add fabulous flavor to our favorite snacks and meals — they also ad...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - July 3, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking eating healthy food life nutrition recipes bbq cranberries july 4th Kind Bars peanuts Pirates Booty Real Deal All Natural Snacks sunkist Source Type: blogs
The Neuroscience of the Future
Neural prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), “closed-loop” deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices, and a world without human brain disorders. The first three of these are already here... is the last one possible?In the utopian world of The Hedonistic Imperative, an ambitious, admirable (and unlikely) 1995 manifesto by philosopher David Pearce, the goal is to “eradicate suffering in all sentient life” through paradise engineering — which involves sophisticated applications of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and psychopharmacology. And going beyond the eradication of suffering, “Life-long happiness ...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
The Truth About Supplements
There is no proof that they work!There I have said it. It is a fact that many of my patients and friend don't want to hear. However, at this time, there is no clinical randomized, trial results that show any benefit to any of the many supplements that are advertised and written about on the web.Many of my patients have heard me discuss this with them in the past. When I was in medical school and starting my residency, there were many patient taking Vitamin C and Vitamin E. Both of these have been shown not to prevent heart disease. (Vitamin E may actually increase the risk of heart disease). When I was in fellows...
Source: Dr Portnay - May 28, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
Surprise! Fat is good for you
Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz’s new book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, is now available.
Nina’s eat-the-fat message fits like hand-in-glove with the Wheat Belly lifestyle. You will especially find her chronology of the historical blunders made along the way to the “low saturated fat for heart health” advice enlightening and liberating. It was, as she discusses, the low total fat and saturated fat mistakes that led us down this more “healthy whole grain” detour, the worst nutritional misjudgements ever made on a worldwide scale.
I ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 19, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Fat intake Source Type: blogs
