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Kiddie Wellness
1 A Global Epidemic: Pneumonia Isn't Just Affecting the Elderly
News
2 The Scary Mail-Order Chicken Pox Craze That's Sweeping the Country
Vegan
3 Vegan Is Love — Having Heart and Taking Action: Kid Friendly or Are You Kidding Me?
Pregnancy
4 Choose Your Style: A Pregnancy Book Personality Guide
Pregnancy
5 Should You Cleanse Before Pregnancy?
lunch box
6 What's Your Mom Lunchbox Style?
What's most likely to show up in your kids' lunchboxes? According to social media site Meebo, your parenting personality has a lot to do with the way you feed your kids. Are you more white bread or organic whole grain? Take our quiz and find out if the study's findings match up with the foods that your kids are most likely to find come lunchtime. You're in the grocery store's bread aisle. Read more
Every mama wants to give her baby the best start possible, but just how clean should that beginning be? Anna Getty, the organic living expert and founder of Pregnancy Awareness Month (which happens to be now), recently wrote about her thoughts on preparing the body for pregnancy on the Healthy Child Healthy World website. She shared her year-long, pre-conception plan to whip her body (and soul) Read more
What does your pregnancy book say about you? In nearly every pregnancy-related blockbuster, the audience sees a quick slip of What to Expect When You're Expecting or The Expectant Father. And while those two books remain popular with a new generation of moms and dads-to-be, bookshop shelves are lined with pregnancy books covering every aspect of a woman's journey to her baby's birth — some Read more
Alternative diets may be all the rage, but how early should they be introduced to tots? Sure, some kids have to eat wheat-, nut-, or dairy-free diets due to allergies, but a growing number of families are opting to raise their lil ones vegan because that's how mom and dad eat — and we're not just talking about celeb tots who follow alternative eating plans. Ruby Roth, a children's book author Read more
Letting your child lick a complete stranger's lollypop is a repulsive idea to most parents, but that's exactly what parents around the country are doing in an attempt to infect their tots with the chicken pox virus, thus avoiding the chicken pox vaccination. Since the vaccine's approval in 1995, every state now requires children to be vaccinated before entering daycare or preschool with Read more
Quick — what's the leading killer of children under the age of 5? Not AIDS, not cancer, not even the flu. Pneumonia kills a child every 20 seconds, but that statistic can easily be improved with vaccinations and education. On the eve of World Pneumonia Day, I spoke with ABC News' senior health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser and Dr. Orin Levine from the International Vaccine Access Center Read more
For model Liya Kebede, Cannes feels like magic. "It gets into you the minute you arrive here," she said this morning. "It's very glamorous, and I like that it's very international as well. You see all these different people from all over the world coming with their films, which is great." It's been a big year for Liya, who was named a L'Oréal Paris brand ambassador last June and is making Read more
We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar. This week Shape turns to Cynthia Sass, a registered dietitian with master's degrees in both nutrition science and public health. If you couldn’t let anything cross your lips from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., but you were allowed to eat anything you wanted for eight hours a day and still lose weight, would you try it? Read more
American Idol closed out its 11th season in LA tonight and crowned Phillip Phillips the winner! The two-hour season finale brought out some of music's biggest stars like Rihanna, Chaka Khan, John Fogerty, and Dream Girls legend Jennifer Holliday, who joined finalist Jessica Sanchez on stage for an unforgettable duet of "And I'm Telling You." The judges also got in on the action. Steven Tyler and Read more
Happy birthday, Ginnifer Goodwin! The Once Upon a Time star turns 34 today, and to celebrate we're taking a look at how Ginnifer stays active and fit in her daily life. Always on the go: Ginnifer often credits living in health-conscious LA for her active lifestyle. Whether she's going to Ballet Body or The Bar Method, her workouts gravitate toward leotards, the barre, and pliés. She also turns Read more
