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Tips on how to raise a happy and healthy family.

Parents can be sneaky too… sometimes

June 22, 2012 By Abel Cheng

almond - healthy eating
Photo Credit: HealthAliciousNess

Children are not the only ones have the ticket to be sneaky, parents too can be crafty.

When you’re cornered, you have to find a way out.

I made almond milk this week. Not wanting to waste it, I forced myself to come up with new ideas to use almond pulp in my cooking.

What did I make? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Health and Fitness

When picky eaters can be picky

June 20, 2012 By Abel Cheng

Picky Eater
Photo Credit: David Goehring

Why children love to eat junk food and shun away from healthy food?

Running out of ideas what to do with the veggie-haters?

If you have one picky eater at home, read on.

Everybody knows fruits and vegetables are good for children’s health. And they are natural healers (and inhibitors) for common diseases. And numerous researches also prove that they can even help you ward off critical illnesses such heart disease and cancer.

The problem: your child runs away faster than a cheetah when being served with plant-based, unprocessed foods (also known as healthy foods).

There’s one simple solution to this problem. In fact, it’s not as difficult as you make it up to be.

Here is the 2-step system… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Health and Fitness

The encounter of the fourth kind of…

June 19, 2012 By Abel Cheng

Teething
Photo Credit: Tambako The Jaguar

A week ago, K complained that his mouth was painful. Also before that he had a mild fever.

I thought, “Oh no! Not HFMD again!”

We took a flashlight and shined on K’s mouth. And found nothing.

We felt relieved for the time being.

The next day, he complained again. But this time, he said the pain came from the gums of the bottom left of the mouth. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Health and Fitness, Parenting

Disease-proof your child

June 13, 2012 By Abel Cheng

Healthy eating for children
Photo Credit: Jennifer

Got a question from a reader recently:

“Can you please recommend us some good books on toddlers healthy eating?
I would certainly want to bring up my child like J & K.”

Well, then I had not come across a book that is “well-founded” and easy to read on healthy eating for kids. So I only recommended a few general healthy eating books.

Things have changed now. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Health and Fitness

Who’s happier: Working or stay-at-home mothers

May 23, 2012 By Abel Cheng

Happiness
Photo Credit: Bùi Linh Ngân

What determines happiness?

What you do? Or where you are?

Who are you with? Or what you eat?

Gallup conducted a survey on happiness between working moms and stay-at-home moms to see who feel less worried.

The results may stun you. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Health and Fitness, Parenting

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