Junk Food

Childhood Obesity: Supporting Healthy Eating Patterns in Children

By Claire Carlton | March 6, 2020 | Health
Childhood obesity has become a highly discussed topic in recent decades, as its prevalence has increased at a worrisome rate. According to the CDC, about 17 percent of children aged 2–19 are considered obese. Obesity in children can be defined as having a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile in gender-specific, BMI-for-age growth

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How to Deal with Stretch Marks in Pregnancy

By Caroline Lentz | March 6, 2020 | Conception 2 College , Expecting , Health
“Tiger stripes.” “Battle scars.” “Striae.” Whatever you call them — and whether you talk about them with pride or annoyance — stretch marks can be an unavoidable effect of pregnancy for some women. The bad news is there isn’t a way to entirely avoid getting them or a magic remedy that will remove them completely

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How to Balance Allergies with Pet Ownership

By Olivia Pitkenthly | March 5, 2020 | Health , Life
“Mom! When are we getting a dog?” If just hearing that phrase makes your sinuses hurt, your eyes water and your throat swell, you are not alone. According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, as much as 10 percent of the U.S. population is allergic to dogs and has to balance allergies.

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Complete Your Family Tree With These Tips

By Christina Vila | March 4, 2020 | Health , Life
Who are you? For most people, this is an easy question. They classify themselves as mothers or fathers, sons or daughters, painters, teachers or doctors. But for others, it raises a burning question that runs deeper than occupation or social position. It raises a question of the past, of roots and ancestry. And questions are

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

By Julie Walter | March 2, 2020 | Learn
One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish. We all know Dr. Seuss’s famous works, but how much do we really know about the famous author himself? March 2 would have been the 116th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, and is also Read Across America Day. To celebrate the day,

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Transitions: Little Kid to Preteen

By Lisa Katz | February 28, 2020 | Conception 2 College , Tweens
For some of us, change is easy. For others, change is a little harder to accept. But, whether it is something ordinary like your child going from one grade level to the next, or an even bigger change like moving to a new home, changes are going to happen in our everyday lives. What about

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Understand Your Child’s Growth Pattern, One Inch at a Time

By Tracy Wright | February 27, 2020 | Health
Once your child is born, the one thing every parent is first concerned about is their baby’s rate of growth. Pediatricians use a growth chart comparing a child’s height and weight statistics to other children, creating a percentile number for each figure. For example, if your child is on the 60th percentile for weight and

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