Health Smart Mom

Depression and You

If you have experienced depression, you know how much it can affect your life.  Overwhelming feelings of sadness can make your life much more difficult, making each day a challenge.  What many people don’t realize is that the effects of depression are not simply internal.  Just like with any other...

Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

One of the most controversial diagnoses in psychology today is borderline personality disorder, or BPD.  Doctors often debate over exactly what this disease is, what causes it, and how to treat it. The easiest way to describe borderline personality disorder is to compare it to bipolar disorder.  Both...

Anxiety Disorders

We’ve all felt anxious at one point or another; it’s a perfectly normal response to stress.  Feeling fear and anxiety actually helps us to cope and accurately respond to stressful situations.  However, people with anxiety disorders feel stress even if there is no trigger there to set it off. ...

Drink More Water Wednesday's

Well, in an ongoing attempt to improve the health of moms all over, you knew that I would mention drinking water.  Why You Should Drink More Water I am assuming that you, like me, and most moms, are busy, and don't actually drink as much water as you should be drinking.    But there is no denying...

Simple Herbal Alternatives

When most people look in their medicine cabinets, they see a wide array of over-the-counter and prescription medications.  There are probably cough and cold remedies, pain medications, ointments, and much more.  If only feeling better could be less complicated. Actually, it can.  Herbs can provide...

Help for Winter Allergies

When you think of allergens, the first thing you probably think of is spring. The flowers are blooming, the grass is growing, and many people are suffering. The problem is that just because spring has come and gone, it doesn’t mean your allergies have too. For many people, winter allergies can be...

Healthy Diet for Winter

One of the most important ingredients of any diet, particularly a winter diet, is water.  This is because your body tends to lose water with the cold dry air.  Proper hydration is required for your cells to function well.  Without this proper hydration, you end up looking and feeling bad.  A general...

3 Great Non Traditional Ab Exercises

Tired of typical ab exercise routines such as crunches, sit-ups, leg lifts, etc.? Well why not try something a little different. Often a great alternative is a metabolism-boosting high intensity workout that works your entire body while also working your abs. Here is a great example of an ab workout...

5 Tricks to Eat Healthier at Restaurants

5 Tricks to Eat Healthier at Restaurants By Mike Geary Dining out is a big part of most people's lives. Maybe you have to eat out frequently because you entertain clients at restaurants. Perhaps you don't even like eating out. Regardless, if you want to keep a nice fit body, restaurant meals will give...

When Lice Won't Leave

Well, now that school has been in for a while, some parents have been found their youngsters the unwanted new habitat for lice. Just mentioning the word makes my head itch. As a mom of 3, and stepmom to 5, I've been through the life cycle of a louse more times than I can count. At the time, when...