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Happy New Year to our Healthy-Family Readers

December 31, 2011 by Caryn Talty Comments1 Comment »

May Your Family Have a Happy New Year in 2012!

Healthy-Family.org would like to sincerely thank our loyal readers for their support this year. Without your comments, emails, tweets, and Facebook likes we would not have been able to reach a wider audience in 2011. We are humbled by, and appreciative of all the buzz we’ve received this year. Our blog has developed a new vision for 2012 and are excited to bring you more interesting and unique content, new categories, and more frequent postings. We will continue to post recipes for our gluten free and corn free friends but we are also excited to include a few articles and recipes for folks following the Paleo Diet as well. We also have also begun developing an Educational hub page on schooling models. It will link a series of helpful articles for parents who are deciding which educational model is best for their children: public, private, or homeschooling. These articles are full of additional resources, practical advice, and helpful links for more information.

Healthy-Family.org Wishes our Readers a Happy New Year

We will continue to bring you helpful articles on internet safety and parenting with technology. We have been offered the opportunity to review additional apps and software that are designed to help parents manage internet access, and teach core concepts to their children …continue reading »

Healthy-Family.org Reaches a Milestone, One Million Views!

November 19, 2011 by Caryn Talty CommentsBe the first to comment on this article! »

We’d like to thank our subscribed readers for their support!

Gluten-free Corn-free Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie

A reminicent look at our first recipe: a stuffed apple

After just 17,663 days online (that’s nearly 4 1/2 years), we’ve reached quite a milestone at Healthy-Family.org. Our website has reached one million views! To celebrate I decided to re-post the very first article written on our website (originally posted on 07/02/2007). When I pulled it up today I laughed at the site of it. This post was written only a few weeks after learning that my son had severe food intolerances to 15 foods and chemicals, including wheat and corn. At that time I had a cheap camera and no culinary skills to speak of.  I didn’t know much about photography either (I know quite a bit more thanks to some tutoring by a photography friend and a new camera.) But I am still learning.

I laugh at this grainy image of an apple cut and cored on that child’s plate. Several thoughts ran into my mind: it’s grainy, too small, out of focus, and taken in the wrong light. The day I first posted it I think I cried; not because the photo was so lousy, or the dish wasn’t even cooked (to be honest, back then I didn’t know how or where to start). And I didn’t cry because it wasn’t that creative, but because I was overwhelmed at the idea of having to learn how to feed my son from scratch. I was afraid I would screw up, that his broken immune system wouldn’t heal, and that I was barking up the wrong tree with a food elimination diet. I promised to give it 6 months at the very least. Now here we are almost 4 1/2 years later. …continue reading »

Healthy Family Readers: Enter a contest for free bed this week!

September 28, 2010 by Caryn Talty CommentsBe the first to comment on this article! »
Natural Form Bed mattress interior

Natural Form Bed mattress interior

Having a rough time catching some shut eye in your worn out old bed? Wouldn’t you love a bed that molds itself to the pressure points along your spine? How about something with nine separate air chambers that don’t ever need electric pumps or special adjustments?

If your answer is yes, yes, and yes, then check out the Natural Form Bed Company’s Facebook Fan Page for a one of a kind special offer.

WCW, Inc is giving away a bed at their Natural Form Bed Facebook Fan Page.

A randomly selected winner on October 1 will be chosen. The lucky person will win a free Natural Form Bed, advertised to be the “the first and only sleeping surface to provide comfortable, pressure-free sleep.” …continue reading »

Biggest Loser Chicago Casting!

July 8, 2010 by Tomas Mackevicius CommentsBe the first to comment on this article! »

Recently we have received a letter from Jodi Thomas – the casting director of TV show “The Biggest Loser”. Here’s the excerpt:

Thank you for all your amazing help in the health and wellness community! We are super excited to be coming to Chicago for our open casting call!

Last season we found many great contestants from the Chicago area and our last winner was Mike Ventrella, a local who lost 264lbs!

This season we hope we can find more great people who are in need of our help and would like the life-changing opportunity to get on the show. We ask that you help us get the word out that we are coming to Chicago to cast the show.

We are looking for positive people who need to lose a substantial amount of weight. These are the people who are in danger of many major health risks.

Losing those extra pounds and getting back into shape is always a great idea! Good luck to all Chicago contestants!

Biggest Loser Chicago Casting - 2010

No Health Insurance and Big Medical Bills: Now there’s Help for Illinois Residents

July 7, 2009 by Tomas Mackevicius CommentsBe the first to comment on this article! »

moneyRecently we got a letter from our reader Karen J., where she describes the problem that she had to face and searches for possible ways out.

“I recently had a very bad experience with the health care industry and I don’t know who I can turn to for advice.

I work as a home health care nurse. Recently after a series of stressful experiences I suffered an enormous amount of fatigue and as a result I “passed out” at a client’s house. The client panicked and called 911. I have sleep apnea, and so it was very difficult for the paramedic to revive me. I started coming around, but because of the client’s anxiety, the decision was made to transport me to a nearby emergency room. …continue reading »

Movie “Food, Inc.” Opens in Theaters

June 10, 2009 by Caryn Talty Comments5 Comments »

This Robert Kenner documentary, entitled: “Food, Inc.” is an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.

The Magnolia Pictures film makes its debut at San Francisco, CA: Embarcadero Center Cinema 5, West Los Angeles, CA: Nuart Theatre, and the New York, NY: Film Forum on July 12 before moving through the rest of the country, starting June 19th. …continue reading »

Chicago Health Freedom Expo 2009

June 4, 2009 by Tomas Mackevicius Comments1 Comment »

Health Freedom Expo 2009 - Chicago

Support healthy lifestyles, enhance good nutrition, and encourage Americans to make daily, sensible life-choices – that’s the mission of the Fifth Annual Chicago Health Freedom Expo (June 12-14, 2009) – a premier natural health event.

As their web site states:

It’s economics, really. The more natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they buy. The pharmaceutical industry is taking steps to slow the shift toward natural healthcare. With the support of the medical establishment, Big Pharma is striving to gain monopolistic control over the use of drugs and make them the only measure available to treat illness.

The Health Freedom Expo is a dynamic three-day event featuring the most prominent keynote speakers (Nicholas Perricone, Chef Alex Jamieson, Joseph Mercola to name a few) …continue reading »

Eco Friendly Fibers, not always Allergy Friendly

April 20, 2009 by Karen Blue Comments1 Comment »

yarn

The environmental movement has produced some wonderful and creative ideas, to help our planet. Eco friendly fabrics made from hemp, bamboo, corn or milk have been part of this movement. These fibers for the extremely sensitive can, and have caused problems for people with skin sensitivities. There are chairs filled with soy and plastics that can be made from corn that are not always clearly marked. …continue reading »