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The case against soda

Note from Jennifer: Today is national Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day. Thus, Cedar is home with me, writing and doing some social media. When I asked what he wanted to write about, he said soda. The post below is all Cedar, including the soda shopping choices. Stay tuned, because he’ll also be posting a new [...]

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National Nutrition Month Resources for Green Families

March is National Nutrition Month! Better yet, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of National Nutrition Month. This annual event was designed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the goal is to focus on helping families and individuals make smarter, healthier food choices. This year’s theme is “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day,” which [...]

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Family screen-time discussion update

As frequent Growing a Green Family readers may know, I’m fed up with screens and trying to get the family to cut back. This is complicated for a few reasons: I work at home, with screens. It’s a little hypocritical to ask other people to quit using them when I use them all day long [...]

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Health benefits of natural scents

If you’re not a scent person, this post won’t be your cup o’ tea. I am a scent person. I like soy pumpkin spice candles, apple body wash and tons of essential oils – not all at once! Beyond making your world smell better, many scents actually offer some amazing benefits for your health and mental status too [...]

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Are people really that addicted to technology?

I’m considering a screen detox at my house. Why? Because one, I’m tired of people paying more attention to screens than to other people and other interests and two my household has a lot of red flags related to screen addiction and low physical activity. I’m just not feeling like my household is using screens [...]

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Red Flags Related to Kids + Physical Activity + Tech Gadget Overload

I’m pondering a screen detox right now, because screen time is out of control at my house. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one at my house who would be on board with a screen detox. I’m guessing everyone else in the house would say, “You’re overreacting about the screen situation.” So, to be fair, [...]

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Considering a home screen detox

I know I’ve been absent a lot lately. Sorry about that. Turns out you shouldn’t look for a new school for your kid at the end of the year while looking for new clients and organizing spring cleaning (stress city). Still, just because I’ve been gone, doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about green family [...]

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Tips for raising a healthy and green eater from birth

This year, I’ve been working on a series about childhood obesity and healthy family food and exercise habits. As I’ve noted previously, when it comes to food habits, it’s extremely hard to change established food habits in your older kids. It’s much more simple to raise kids who eat right from the start. Later we [...]

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Reasons to join your local nature gym

According to Medical News Today, it’s estimated that about 80% of folks who purchase a gym membership will ignore said membership. More alarming, U.S. individuals fork over about 12 billion annually for these unused gym memberships. All-in-all it would appear that a gym membership isn’t the best option for getting fit. Gyms also aren’t kind [...]

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Can you really go 100% organic with your body care and cosmetic products?

If your goal is to go 100% organic when it comes to organic skin care, you can probably manage it because there’s a decent range of organic skin care out there. If your goal is to go totally organic with skin care AND cosmetics, shampoo, deodorant and other body care, you’ll have more trouble. Learn about organic body care [...]