Healthy Living Guides

Dieting and Breastfeeding

During pregnancy women are encouraged to put on an optimum amount of weight. After giving birth many new mothers struggle to shed the weight that they put on during their pregnancy and turn towards dieting. If you are breastfeeding your baby there are effective ways to diet without depriving your baby of essential nutrients or lessening your milk supply.

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Topic: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Three Things to Do Before Going under the Laser

Lasik eye surgery is the most common form of refractive surgery performed. Although the procedure is often referred to as “Lasik,” the name is an acronym for Laser Assisted SItu Keratomileusis.

Topic: Lasik Eye Surgery

Easy Ways to Talk to your Kids about Sleep

There are several ways to talk to your kids about sleep. Proper sleep habits should be established early in life so they become habitual instinct early and potential problems can be avoided later on in life. Sleep routines started as a child generally carry over into adolescent and adult life. It is your job as a parent to instill in your children a sense of good sleep habits now, so they will have them for life.

Gestational Diabetes

You are twenty eight weeks pregnant! Congratulations, you have made it to your third trimester with a picture perfect pregnancy. You go in to see your obgyn for your appointment and the bomb drops. You have gestational diabetes.

Topic: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Lasik: The Down and Dirty Details

Lasik eye surgery is a relatively simple procedure that causes very little stress to the body. Patients of the surgery are capable of walking into the surgery center without assistance and walking out without assistance. In addition, the procedure itself generally takes less than one minute to complete and the patient remains awake the entire time!

Topic: Lasik Eye Surgery

Tryptophan: The Trick to Catching Some Zzzz’s

Do you know what tryptophan is? Tryptophan is a vital amino acid that you can only get from foods you eat. Your body cannot produce tryptophan on its own, so it depends on the foods and supplements you eat or consume. In turn, this tryptophan assists the human body in making niacin, a B level vitamin. This chain of biological events helps produce serotonin, a chemical that your body needs in order to “cool off” and relax so that you can slip into dreamland. People with insomnia and characteristics of sleep deprivation have low levels of this serotonin.

Topic: Sleep Disorders

Exercise During Pregnancy

For some women the thought of exercise during pregnancy is as appealing as a root canal without novacane. In their minds they have a nine month pass to keeping up with their gym routine. The first three months they are battling morning sickness and exhaustion. The next three months they are beginning to show. The last three months are so uncomfortable that walking ten feet to the bathroom is pure torture, so there is no way they will be able to walk on a treadmill for ten minutes.

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Topic: Pregnancy and Childbirth