Posts Tagged ‘Depression’
Is Your Medication Depressing You?
Prescription medication use is on the rise. Would you be surprised that over half of Americans are taking prescribed medications daily? On average, those Americans on a prescribed medication are taking 4 prescribed drugs. (1) That’s a lot of drugs, people! Does it sound like its fixing anything? It gets worse! A recent study looked…
Read MoreUnderstanding Five Surprising Contributors to Teen Depression
“I had no idea my kid struggled with depression.” It’s something we’ve heard many times, and it always breaks our hearts. You may even be one of the millions of parents who have said it. Kids are hurting- even hurting themselves with knives and razors, and we need to know how to respond in a…
Read MoreHow Well Do You Know Your GMOs
If we saw a movie or television show where the government or a private organization was controlling the population by adding a foreign component to the food supply, we would think that the people who came up with the idea were conspiracy theorists. For that very reason, most people will be surprised to learn this…
Read MoreAre You a Metal Head?
Metal can be bad for you- not the metal music but the metals in the environment. We have learned a lot about metals over the past half a century. Before Ozzy was getting his metal on there were children who played with toxic metals to learn about them and metals are still impacting children, and…
Read MoreMissing Pieces: 4 Surprising Factors To Mental Health
Mental health and its impacts on our world are becoming more of a concern every day. We also see a lot more of how it impacts our friends, community and country as social media shines a spotlight on those concerns every day. Sometimes the world’s mental health concerns being in our face all the time…
Read MoreAre Air Fresheners A Smell You Can Live With?
Remember when you were a kid and you went to Grandma’s farm and she’d have a pie cooling off in the window? Remember how you could smell it as Pa turned his jalopy onto the dirt path that was the driveway? It made you wish you didn’t have to endure an entire meal before you…
Read More“It’s All In Your Gut.”
For her entire scholastic life Lois has been working hard to keep her grade point average up. Through grade school and high school she was an A student, which came to her through diligence and discipline. She graduated in the top 5% of her class, National Honor Society and scholarships coming out of her ears.…
Read MoreGlyphosate. Roundup The Usual Suspects.
By Dr. Patrick Flynn As I walked to my car the other day I noticed a healthy dose of weeds growing at the edge of my driveway, and even a few in the crack between cement slabs. I hate weeds, and they certainly make it look like we’re the hillbillies of the neighborhood. They need…
Read MoreJust Breathe: Tool for Calm Kids
Your child looks up at you with big panicked eyes. Your heart wants to jump into action to take away whatever is causing them pain or frustration. Right now, it’s that little Andy has taken their toy, or a friend made fun of their shirt, but those problems get bigger just as kids do. Stressed…
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