I remember being about 5 years old, and my mother wanting to take a midday nap and she tried to get me to join her. I soon got up and announced that I couldn’t sleep, and asked her to teach me how to. My mother explained that I needed to close my eyes, lay very…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Didan Ashanta Somewhere between the hurricane of hormones that floods the body and the prenatal vitamins that most expectant mothers take, something beautiful happens to our hair during pregnancy. We start to enjoy how our tresses grow like a weed and grab every opportunity to show off the volume and strength that we gain like…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Didan Ashanta Having a baby changes your life forever! I totally agree – however, I have a limit on how many of these changes I’m going to accept for the long term. Maybe you do, too. I realise that some women are comfortable with the ‘baby-weight’ that is still with them even when their child…
➠ Continue ReadingAbout a month ago I started going to a personal trainer to lose my pregnancy weight. I gained 50 pounds during my pregnancy and, after losing the first 35 pounds pretty easily, was stuck between 144 and 147 pounds for six months. I’m on the short side — 5′ 4″ — so 150 pounds on…
➠ Continue ReadingYou know Mac. I’m talking Old MacDonald and his crew of cows, pigs, chickens, and other critters we imagine live on family farms. Sadly, Mac’s farm hasn’t been the reality since the 1950s. If you buy your meat from a grocery store, even if it’s labeled organic, most likely that animal was raised indoors in…
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