• Vitamin C helps keep the collagen in your skin from losing it’s strength, so for a daily facial, eat pleanty of citrus
• Keep your skin cells growing by adding extra dark leafy greens to your daily salad
•  Protect against sunburn and inflammation by eating plenty of fish for your Omega 3’s
•  Your skin can repair itself with enough beta carotene. Add carrots, sweet potatoes and mangoes to your diet
•  Protect against UV damage with extra Vitamin E, that can be found in delicious seeds and nuts.

Are you a Healthy Housewife?

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September is the National Month for Ovarian & Pediatric Cancer Awareness, as well as the official Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Week.

Cancer is something that can hurt anyone. Children, men and women.

If you haven’t done so this year, schedule a physical for everyone in your family.

Learn more about cancer:

American Cancer Society
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
Pediatric Oncology Resource Center
Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Prostate Cancer Foundation

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Flouride is being added to watter supplies with the intention of helping teeth. Not only is it not needed to prevent tooth decay, but flouride in drinking water is dangerous! Unsafe for everyone, but specifically dangerous for infants, children, and can cause severe problems in people with kidney disorders!

Click HERE to see what more you can do to protect your family!

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Teach Them While They’re Young

I wish I drank more water when I was little instead of mixed drinks. I wish I had been involved in a sport when I was a teenager. I wish I knew how harmful some medications were when I was a young adult. There are plenty of things we look back on in our lives in regards to health and wish we had either been taught better, knew better, or acted better on behalf of our bodies. We can’t make their decisions their whole life in regards to their health, but we can do a few things to give them a better chance.

1. Be a good example.
2. Teach them why.
3. Engage in activities together.
4. Don’t beat yourself up.
5. Giving in is giving up.

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Sure the media and even our own doctors will tell us we NEED the vaccines that they recommend to avoid catching the super bug, a virus, the flu or even the common cold, but there’s something so simple that you can do to avoid the flu without getting the vaccination!

We all know we should wash our hands. But do we really know how?

• Get your hands wet with warm water
• Use pleanty of soap and lather up real good
• Wash the palms and backs of your hands, wrists (or up to your elbows if you’re like me), and in between your fingers, and don’t forget underneath the finger nails!
• Rinse with water
• Dry off with a clean paper towel, and use that towel to turn the sink off (to prevent reinfecting your clean hands), also use this towel to open the door.

Remember to wash your hands after touching anything gross. The toilet, a pet, your childs nose, and before cooking (during cooking too!)

So how long should you continue to wash? Let’s just say, long. You can sing Happy Birthday twice, or even the ABC’s. Take your time.

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