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Health Stories for Parents

7 Ways to Boost Your Child's Immunity

Although colds and flu are a fact of life for kids, this piece discusses smart steps parents can take to help reduce the number of sick days this winter.

Are Mega-Strollers Pushing the Limits?

The piece discusses the trend of pushing older kids (beyond age 3) in strollers and how that may be contributing to childhood obesity.

Bone Health for Kids

Here’s how to make the most of your tween’s or teens key bone-building years.

Decode Your Child's Cough

This piece helps parents determine, based on the sound of their baby’s cough, whether it’s just a common cold, or something more serious, such as whooping cough, croup, GERD or asthma.

Got Germs?

Playgrounds, restaurant high chairs, and petting zoos can all be seriously icky germy zones. Here’s how to protect your child.

Lunches Kids Will Love

Offers tips on how to make more nutritious lunches that your child will eat.

Mommy, I have to Throw Up!

This piece is a symptom guide to common and not so common stomach illnesses in kids.

My Child Won't Sleep!

Discusses different strategies to consider to help your kids sleep through the night, using four families as real-life examples and comments from leading sleep experts.

My Son's Fight for Life

This article profiles a 3-year-old’s battle with neuroblastoma and how his mother found the one physician who would operate—to ultimately save the little boy’s life.

Outwit Your Appetite

To control your urge to eat and eat, this piece offers simple mealtime tricks that can help you eat less.

Raising Healthy Kids

There’s more to your child’s nutritional needs than junking the junk food and peeling an apple. In this piece, I cover five health habits parents should practice themselves to set the tone from the top down.

The Broken-Bone Epidemic

Calcium deficiency in U.S. kids is at an all-time high—and their bodies may pay the price for a lifetime. Here’s how to help your kids build strong bones now to reduce the risk of osteoporosis. (This piece is geared for parents of kids age 9 and under.)

The Crisis in Children's Mental Healthcare

The piece discusses how the current mental healthcare system is failing children and what parents can do to be their children’s advocate to help them get the help they may need. (The piece is long, but can easily be shortened, if necessary.)

Why Kids Need Water

The piece discusses the benefits of water for kids and why babies don’t need extra water in the first year of life.

Nutrition

10 Ways to Turbo-charge Your Immune System

You can turn your body into a germ-killing machine.

12 Diet Questions Answered

Answers 12 of your most burning diet questions to help you eat healthier such as “How can I control my cravings?” And “What are the worst fast foods?”

6 New Reasons to Get More Calcium

Three servings of dairy a day does more than build strong bones. This piece discusses the latest research, which shows that calcium can combat cancer, weight gain, PMS, and more.

Boost Your Brainpower!

This piece covers the specific nutrients that can change your brain’s neurotransmitters to enhance your overall mental performance.

Can You Drink 597 Cans of Soda?

That’s how much we’re drinking, on average, per year. This piece discusses what’s fueling our soda habit and what to do about it.

Detox Diets

From fasts to colonics, there are many ways to get rid of toxins. Here’s the lowdown on cleansing and purifying your body.

Disease-proof Your Diet

This piece addresses the superfoods that can help fight colds, PMS, cancer and more.

Eat More Snack

You may not be eating enough between meals. In this guide to low-fat snacks, you’ll learn how snacking can help fuel your workouts, improve your health and keep you energized all day.

Fishing for Good Health

Discusses the health benefits of fish as well as how to cook it and choose the freshest fish at the supermarket.

Food Diary Dos and Don'ts

How to use a food diary to help you lose weight.

Forbidden Treats that Take Off Pounds

The product guide rates commercially available low-cal brownies, cakes, cookies, and ice creams for taste in relation to fat and calories.

Frankenfood Figh

The piece discusses genetically modified food so you, as a consumer, can know whether and when you’re buying them.

Happy Meals

Features good-mood foods and how the nutrients they contain works to nourish your mind and improve your mood.

Heart-healthy foods

This piece discusses specific nutrients in the diet that are “heart helpers,” where to find them and how much you need to keep your ticker in top shape.

Is it Safe to Eat Meat

This guide can help you know if the meat you’re eating is safe and learn how to “steer“clear of meat-related illnesses such as foot-and-mouth disease, salmonella, and E. coli.

Slash the fat from Your Meat Meal

You’ve probably mastered the widespread principle that chicken and turkey are leaner than pork, beef and lamb. But guess what? It’s not always true anymore. This piece dispels meat myths and covers how to reduce the fat from meat meals across the board by 20 percent or more.

Smart Shopping for Women

Discusses the foods to load up on when you go grocery shopping to meet your dietary needs.

Sneaky Ways to Eat More Vegetables

Offers six sneaky ways to work more greens into your diet. The average American woman eats less than half of what experts say we need to stay healthy.

Super Vitamin

Features the myths versus reality of vitamins and minerals to enhance your supplement savvy.

The Case for Organic Food

Discusses why organic makes sense for the environment and your health and how to save money on organic food.

The Heart-Smart Diet

This piece is an eating plan that can help you get the lowdown on the nutrients you need (and what to avoid) to live a longer, healthier life.

The Key to Happiness is on Your Plate

Discusses how what you eat and affect your mood.

The Thinking Woman's Guide to Eating

Discusses seven nutrients to include in your diet that can give you a mental edge and the foods that contain them.

The Trans Fats Trap

In this piece, I discuss what trans fatty acids are and how you can avoid them.

The Truth about Multivitamins

Dispels 10 myths about multivitamins, such as:

  • A multi gives you energy.
  • The more vitamins and minerals you get, the healthier you’ll be.
  • To find out what a multivitamin contains, just read the label. (You can’t always trust the label because supplements aren’t tightly regulated by the FDA.)
  • If you’re having a bad day at work, you need a “stress formula” vitamin.
The World's Best Eating Tips

Discusses the best eating habits from the world’s healthiest and how you can import them into your diet.

This Woman's Going to Eat Too Much

How your home, your office, even the world at large—are conspiring to make you put on pounds. Here, the six triggers to watch out for—and how to beat them.

Parenting

Family-friendly Health Insurance

This piece covers the seven most insidious health insurance traps for families.

Mom vs. Dad Discipline

This piece covers four common discipline dilemmas in which couples tend to clash: She believes in time-outs, he doesn’t; She likes to coddle; he likes to threaten; he always wants to be the good guy; she’s stuck being the enforcer; he believes in spanking, she doesn’t. With advice from discipline experts, this piece shows how four couples with clashing styles learn to work together and get better results.

Pick Your Battles

Discipline issues change as your kids get older. How do you know what’s okay because it’s “just a stage” and what’s not? The age-by-age chart will help you decide how to handle your child’s antics—and help you stop his nightmare behavior.

The New Discipline Rules

Parent coaches make big bucks helping moms and dads improve their kids’ behavior. But you’re in luck. In this piece, four parent coaches solve behavior issues that are common among young kids.

Pregnancy/Babies/Toddlers

6 Moves that Make Labor Easier

This piece discusses six different positions to consider during active labor that can ease pain, even speed the process. The piece also includes a side bar on the different stages of labor.

Amazing Stories of Incredible Births

This piece profiles five women who gave birth under unusual circumstances, such as in a car dealer parking lot en route to the hospital—or at home, unexpectedly, a breech birth.

Birthmark Basics

This piece discusses five of the most common birthmarks that affect as many as one in 10 babies: hemangioma, port-wine stain, Mongolian spot, congenital pigmented nevi and café-au-lait spots. Here, I cover the essential facts about what each is and when to worry, plus the latest treatments.

C-Sections Explained

This piece answers questions women often have about C-sections, such as: What are the most common reasons that I’d need a C-section? and Is vaginal birth after C-section safe?

Hey, Can We Talk?

This piece discusses language development and how to help your baby and toddler learn to talk.

Home Delivery

For most parents, the choice of where to have a baby is easy: the hospital. But some couples—a small but growing number—choose to deliver their babies at home instead. This piece profiles one woman’s home birth. In this case, home was a studio apartment in New York City.

How Will I Know if I'm in Labor?

No one wants to arrive at the hospital too early or risk giving birth in the car. Here’s how to tell the difference between false labor and the real thing.

I fought back

This is the story of how one mom managed to have a healthy baby despite being diagnosed with breast cancer when she was pregnant.

Is There a Good-Looks Gene?

Forget what you learned in high school. The science of genes is changing. This piece covers how to figure out whether your child up with all the best assets from both sides of your family.

Mom's Guide to a Healthy Body

The piece discusses how to prevent the parenting wear and tear that can result from lifting your baby, carrying a car seat or even just holding your toddler incorrectly.

Mother's Helper

The piece discusses the benefits of having a doula by your side during childbirth, plus how to find a qualified doula in your area and what to expect from this labor coach.

New Help for Disabled Moms

Discusses how a growing number of hospitals are developing programs to provide disabled women with better prenatal and obstetrical care.

Our Amazing Triplets

The piece details the story of Bellienda and Jim Burnett, a couple, who, with the help of a surrogate mother, had biological triplets—one month apart. It includes a side bar on the legal aspects of surrogacy.

Pregnancy in Your 20s, 30s, 40s

The piece discusses the simple steps women can take at every age to make the most of pregnancy and motherhood.

The Foods Moms Should Eat Every Week

In this piece, I cover a list of 14 foods women with children should try to get in every week to help them boost their energy levels and prevent disease. While moms are busy taking care of everyone else, their own diet habits can suffer. By developing their meals around these basic foods, they’ll know they have their bases covered.

The Infertility Squeeze

The piece discusses how to manage work and secondary infertility—the inability to conceive and deliver a baby after having had one or more children. In this piece, I discuss whether you should tell your boss, how to handle nosy colleagues, how to handle the heartbreak of office baby showers and why it’s important to nurture yourself during this process.

What No One Tells You About Labor

This piece addresses what really happens during childbirth, such as you throw up, your teeth chatter, you pass gas, you act like a lunatic, your mind goes blank, you don’t necessarily love your baby at first sight, and the biological basis behind each, so moms-to-be can really be prepared.

Your Toughest Baby Product Questions—Answered!

This piece discusses common questions new and expectant parents have about baby products that often don’t get answered—until now, such as, “Is it okay to borrow my best friend’s breast pump or buy a preowned one?

Safety

A Room-by-Room Checklist for Fire Safety

Features a checklist for every room in your home to help protect you from fire.

Accident Alert

The piece discusses essential toddler-proofing tactics for all around the house.

Keeping Your Grandchildren Safe

This room-by-room safety guide discusses how to make your home safer for your grandchildren and yourself.

Kids to the Rescue

Would your child know what to do in an emergency? In this piece, I cover the stories of five heroes under age 10 who acted fast to save someone else’s life. Includes side bar on what your child should know to help during an emergency.

Test Your Sun-Safety IQ

This piece has parents take a quiz to help them find out whether they’re doing enough to protect their child from the sun’s rays.

Weight loss

10 Health Foods that Aren't...and 10 Treats that Are Healthier than You Think

Here, 10 supposed superfoods whose powers you may be overestimatin—and 10 that aren’t getting the credit they deserve.

16 Secrets from the Diet Doctors

Some stay-slim strategies are definitely more effective than others. In this piece, top experts in the field of weight management give their best advice for keeping it off.

6 Stages of Weight Loss

Tired of diet failure? The mental makeover this piece provides will help you tame your diet demons and keep the weight off—for good.

Be a Diet Rebel

Offers proven rule-breaking tips to weight-loss that fight deprivation and help you lose weight, such as “Give yourself permission to eat cookies and ice cream.”

City-by-City Guide: Fast Food Without the Pounds

Discusses the “famed” food of seven vacation destination cities in the U.S., and how to eat healthier when you’re traveling and cooking these regional favorites at home.

Countdown to Summer Diet

Offers a delicious seven-day spa diet and recipes to help you get ready for swimsuit season.

Cut the Fat from Your Kitchen

It could be that what you cook with as much as what you cook that makes losing weight harder or easier. This piece covers six slimming cooking techniques.

Diet's Worst Traps

Helps you craft coping strategies that can help you through the three basic psychological stages of weight loss.

Does Drinking Wreck Your Diet?

Whether it’s a weekend barbecue, a happy hour or a dinner with friends, many of us like to relax with an occasional glass of beer, wine or other alcoholic beverage. But can drinking be part of a healthy lifestyl—especially if you’re trying to lose weight? This piece tackles all of your burning questions about alcohol so that you can drink (if you choose) with confidence.

Drop a Dress Size

Offers a diet plan for peeling off post-holiday pounds.

Eat Fat to Lose Fat?

Discusses how the right fat in your diet can help you lose weight and be healthier.

Find Your Perfect Diet

Shows you how to tweak your weight-loss strategies to suit your personality. Four weight-loss personality types are discussed.

Healthy Holiday Eating Guide

Offers loads of practical tips for surviving the holiday season without gaining an ounce.

How to Curb Food Cravings

Offers strategies for weight-loss success when everyday life gets in the way.

How to Eat Trim this Thanksgiving

Here, four important tricks to psych out your stomach before the big feast.

In a Diet Rut? 10 Ways to Peel Off Pounds

Reveals the pitfalls that may be keeping you from losing.

Is Your Diet Stalled?

Kickstart your weight-loss plan with these new and improved strategies from top diet docs.

The Diet Traps Every New Mom Faces

This piece discusses five common diet traps new moms can fall into that can cause pregnancy pounds to linger such as eating when you’re tired, adopting a kiddie food diet, multitasking meals, not eating all day because you’re too busy, and having some just because it’s there, like the treats someone brings to your playgroup.

The New Weight-Loss Rule

Because of the obesity epidemic, researchers now know so much more about weight-loss and weight maintenance than they did even five years ago. In this piece, I cover 10 new proven weight-loss principles that are based on the latest research, including why it’s to be mentally prepared and set modest goals to set yourself up for success, why should focus on what you can eat, not the foods you need to limit, why you need “treats,” the role of exercise and why it’s important to weigh yourself regularly.

The Prudent Pig-out Guide

Discusses how to eat, drink and not gain an ounce during the holiday season.

The Real Reason You're Not Losing Weight

This portion size story includes to help you size up your portions. Two tablespoons of peanut butter, for example, looks like one Oreo.

The Secret to Weight-Loss Success

This weight-loss piece addresses how the people in your life who can sabotage your diet, including your coworkers and your boss, your mom, your husband/boyfriend, your kids and your friends, and how to turn any negativity they may unwittingly offer into positive support.

Trick Your Body Into Losing without Dieting!

Discusses lipoprotein lipase (LPL), a special enzyme whose job it is to store fat in your body—and how to outsmart it.

Weight-loss in Your 20s, 30s, 40s

Take charge of your weight fate with this decade-by-decade guide to staying fit.

Why Spot Reducing Doesn't Work

Doing hundreds of leg lifts won’t make your thighs thinner. Here’s why.

Your 20 Biggest Diet Questions--Answered

Addresses some of the most common nutrition questions such as “Which five vegetables pack the biggest nutritional punch?” and “If I don’t have high blood pressure, do I have to worry about sodium intake?

Your Diet Wishes--Granted!

Offers practical can-do solutions to 9 common weight-loss dilemmas, such as “I wish I could lose weight without giving up my favorite foods,” and “I wish I could eat a healthy, tasty lunch even though I’m chained to my desk.”

Women's health

10 Smart Moves To Keep You Slim Forever!

Little daily adjustments to help you achieve a winning weight-loss plan.

50 Lifesaving Tips from Top Doctors

The more doctors learn about longevity, the more they appreciate the role life style plays in determining health. Here, top physicians reflect on the latest thinking on how to live a longer, healthier life.

7 Diet & Fitness Traps

Covers seven traps that can keep you from New Year’s resolution success and how to fix them.

9 Common Medical Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Every day we make dozens of decisions that affect our well-being. We do the best we can, but some choices do more harm than good. Top doctors from across the country list the mistakes they wish their patients would avoid.

Alzheimer's Myths and Facts

This piece discusses three common myths about Alzheimer’s and provides a reality check for each.

Anti-aging Creams

Offers insight on whether these skincare products really help lines and wrinkles disappear—or just money in your wallet.

Bionic Boomers

Discusses why midlife is becoming a most popular time for joint replacement and the nuts and bolts of total knee, total hip and total shoulder replacement.

Body Language

Your stomach growls. Your knees creak. You snore like a freight train. This piece can help you decide whether these are everyday quirks or your body crying for help.

Break Your Bad Habits

If you’re like nearly 50 percent of Americans, you’ll make at least one New Year’s resolution on January 1, most likely involving your health, money, or improving a relationship. But research shows that many of us abandon our resolutions by mid-February. In this piece, I cover a stage-by-stage approach based on the science of behavior chance that can help readers increase their chances of success. In stage 1, for example, you prep for behavior change by defining realistic and measurable goals; in stage 2, take action, but only after you’ve made sure your life is relatively calm so you have the time and energy to devote to implementing the changes you’ve planned, and so on.

Cancer-proof Your Body

We know more about preventing cancer than ever before. This piece discusses six surprising tips that can help stop this frightening disease before it stops you.

Conquering Incontinence

Don’t want to go with the flow? The tips these pieces offers can help.

Counter Culture

Americans spend millions on probiotic products. Here’s what these friendly bacteria can do for you.

Diabetes: What You Need to Know

Covers who’s at risk, warning signs of diabetes, and what you can do to manage the disease.

Family Health Makeovers

As the gatekeeper of your family’s well-being, you know that a balanced diet, plenty of exercise and other healthy habits your kids establish now can set a pattern for the rest of their lives. But how much influence do you really have? Plenty. This piece profiles three inspiring moms who took charge and banished bad habit—from too much junk food to smoking in secre—for good.

Gut Advice

Irritable bowel syndrome affects 15 to 20 percent of Americans. In this piece, I discuss new, natural approaches to managing the condition.

Have You Been Diagnosed with Mitral Valve Prolapse?

Here’s a basic guide on what it is, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

Hormones 101

Gives you an elementary education on some of the most important hormones in your body and how they can help or hinder your health.

Hot Shots

Covers everything you ever wanted to know about Botox to take years off your appearance.

How to Make the Most of Your Next Doctor's Visit

Helps you get the most appropriate diagnosis and treatment the next time you visit the doctor.

Little Lies that Can Ruin Your Health

This piece dissects the little lies we tell ourselves, such as “I don’t have to work ou—chasing the kids around is enough,” that can do real damage.

Meals that Deliver

Once reserved for high-profile celebrities with finicky palates and nonexistent budgets, meal delivery services now cater to busy professionals who want to eat healthy meals, but don’t have the time or energy to shop, chop, and cook. In this piece, I discuss the health pros and cons of having meals prepared for you and dropped on your doorstep.

New Screening Tests that Could Save Your Life

Ladies’ Home Journal, November 2005. This piece covers the latest screening tests for detecting breast cancer.

Osteoporosis: Why Young Women Are at Risk

According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, as estimated 41 million women over 50 will be at risk for developing osteoporosis by 2020, signaling an epidemic. This includes women who are in their 20s and 30s now. This piece covers eight steps women in their 20s, 30s and 40s should take to protect their bones now, while there’s still time to do so.

Outsmarting Your HMO

Discusses how to make the most of your health insurance coverage.

Pump Up Your Motivation Muscle

This piece discusses how you can get emotionally fit to conquer pressure-packed projects easier and faster.

Putting Off Child Birth

Covers how to bank your eggs so you can have children when the timing is right.

Quit It!

With each drag on a cigarette, smokers set themselves up for a deadly heart attack. Their smoke also skill about 35,000 nonsmokers each year. This piece provides fact and tips to reduce your risk.

Righting Exercise Wrongs

Covers common form faux pas spotted regularly at the gym and on the streets all over the country and how to fix them.

Save Your Skin

Covers how to protect yourself from UV rays and safely enjoy the summer sun.

Sleep Better Starting Tonight

This better-sleep guide is geared for mid-lifers.

Supportive Measures

Breast cancer isn’t a disease you need to battle alone. Here, four inspiring women reveal the life lessons they’ve learned about asking for help and how the support they got made them courageous and strong.

The Anti-Cancer Diet

Offers food for thought on seven super foods that can help you put up a food fight against cancer.

The best days of the month to...

have great sex, start a diet, quit smoking and even make a tough decision based on your menstrual cycle.

The Facts about Mental Illness

Mental illness affects nearly 1 in 5 adult Americans. Here, you’ll find basic facts on the causes, symptoms and treatment for the most common: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Global Kitchen

Features international eating tips on how to make your holiday menus healthy and adventurous.

The Home Stretch

Stretches you can do at home that are good for your joints.

The Last Word on Sleep

The importance of a good night’s sleep is often underestimated. Studies have linked chronic sleep deprivation to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, plus memory and attention problems. Many think that a declining quality of sleep is an inevitable consequence of getting older, but that’s not the case. In this piece, which is in a Q & A format, Joyce Walsleben, Ph.D., of New York University’s Sleep Disorders Center and coauthor of A Woman’s Guide to Sleep dispels common myths and reveals the secrets to getting more shut-eye, especially after 40.

The Time is Ripe!

Discusses practical ways to add fruits, veggies, and whole grains to your diet to improve your health.

The Wonders of Water

This piece covers how something with no nutrients (water) can be so beneficial to your health.

We fought back

Six inspiring women share the stories of how their battles with breast cancer made them stronger and wiser.

What to Do When Your Pap is Abnormal

Each year, 5 to 7 percent of the 50 million Pap tests performed each year are abnormal in the U.S. This piece features a guide to various results, what they mean and what you need to do next.

When to Get a Second Opinion

Whether you’re uneasy about a treatment plan or think something’s wrong when your doc says you’re fine, you’re entitled to go elsewhere to make sure you’re on the right track. This piece provides steps that can help you feel confident about your care.

Your Checkup Checklist

This short piece offers tips on how to prepare for your next gyn visit.

Your Healthy Bones Action Plan

This is a comprehensive guide for preventing osteoporosis in your 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond.

Your Personal Rx for Stress

Discusses the concept that stress reduction is highly individual and that many of us fall into four basic stress types: monitors, distracters, the spiritually included and fidgeters. You learn how to personalize your stress-busting routine, based on your stress type, to make it more effective.