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Essential Nutrients during Pregnancy

Everyone is familiar with the Food Pyramid. A colorful diagram of food groups you should eat on a daily basis and how much of each group will give you your daily nutrients. Simple and easy to use, but what guidelines are in place during pregnancy? According to the My Pyramid Plan for Moms, expectant moms should increase their calorie intake approximately 300 calories per day. This increase will depend on several factors such as[...]

An Apple A Day

While giving an address to the St Louis World Fair in 1904, J.T. Stinson mentioned a phrase about apples, ?an apple a day will keep the Doctor away.? Stinson had no clue that 104 years later that phrase would still be ringing around homes, handed down from generation to generation. Guess what? It?s true. Apples are great for your health. No fat, no cholesterol and five grams of fiber; definitely the smart snack choice for both you and your children throughout your busy days. According to Mypyramid.gov, adults should have at least [...]

Sperm Donor Not Required To Pay

Just by entering the keywords ?sperm, donor, custody? into a search engine you will see a tremendous amount of links that will take you to article upon article concerning what responsibility a donor has, mainly regarding if they are required to pay child support or not. Many people are harmed emotionally regardless of the outcome, including the children created by the donation. Recently a ruling in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed a decision that required a donor to pay child support plus back support for twins that were born to a previous lover[..]

Parents Raise Awareness and Funds for JPA

Parents Raise Awareness and Funds for JPA
Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, JPA for short, is a brain tumor, the most common brain tumor in children. Roughly 600 children each year are diagnosed with JPA, but unfortunately the most common brain tumor does not have much funding to back research.
Parents were struggling to find resources and treatment [...]

Are you one of the 44 Possibly Infected with TB?

Are you one of the 44 Possibly Infected with TB?
A women traveling this Holiday season from India to California with a stop in Chicago may have infected passengers on board an American Airline flight December 13 with a deadly strain of tuberculosis.
Forty-four passengers over a 17 state span were seated within two rows of [...]

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