My passion: health and nutrition
What colour is your child’s lower eyelid? This simple check can help you figure out if your child has low iron. Gently pull down your child’s lower eyelid and check the colour of the inside of the eyelid. If the colour appears pale pink or whitish, your child may be...
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Sugar can masquerade as glucose, fructose, dextrose, corn syrup and too many more names to list. The World Health Organization (WHO) state children should have a maximum of 25g of sugar per day, and with just one popular fun-sized chocolate bar having 10g of sugar,...
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Seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test stick can be one of the most exciting times in your life! You’re pregnant! You are now on the way to making a human! Even after having three girls, I still find the whole process fascinating. I was one of the first among my...
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Is your child doing a little dance the whole way home or running to the washroom as soon as you open the door? Parents are sometimes surprised when their children won’t use a school bathroom, and they’re often just as perplexed about how to solve the problem. As a...
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Successfully getting your toddler to pee in the toilet is a huge accomplishment and every parent is ecstatic when it finally happens. But some toddlers just won’t go number two. And the longer they hold it, the more constipated they become, making the stool more...
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