My congresswoman is coming to my neighborhood next week to hold a community forum. In her request for an RSVP, she also asked that we include our top desires or areas of concern for her to address. That’s a really great question. If you were to create a “government wish list,” what would it include? [...]
Archive for the ‘Random’ Category
29 Jul
Categories are back!
When I stopped hosting my blog myself and started using wordpress, my categories did not import properly. I’ve been working on it for a while. Some of them are back, although almost 200 of my oldest posts still show as uncategorized. The 200+ newest posts though are organized and you can now search through the [...]
21 Jul
49 states have obesity rates over 20%
Twenty years ago, every state in America had an obesity rate under 15%. Now all, except Colorado, have more than 20% of their residents classified as obese (overweight people have a Body Mass Index, BMI, of 25-30; obese people have a BMI over 30). Only Jon Stewart could make this very depressing fact quite hilarious. [...]
3 Jun
Welcome to my new site!
HealthTakenSeriously.com has been getting so much traffic lately that I’ve finally decided to stop hosting it on my husband’s server at home. For those of you that have been having trouble accessing this or any of my sites, my apologies. Hopefully that won’t be a problem anymore.
2 Mar
Healthy home checklist
The Environmental Working Group has a healthy home checklist on their website. It asks you what you do in different areas of your house, like the kitchen and bathroom, and makes suggestions of what to avoid. We took it and here are a few things we could change around our home: Use iodized salt Avoid [...]
7 Aug
Vacation!
We’re on vacation until mid August. I hope to come back with some good book reviews, as I have several books I plan to read.
30 May
Baby is born!
I had my 3rd son last week via water birth. It was a wonderful experience and I highly recommend it for anyone wanting a natural birth. I hope to be posting again in a week or two.
22 May
Exercising while pregnant
I’m 39 weeks pregnant today and proud to say that I worked out weekly up until last week! This is my third pregnancy, but the first one where I exercised the entire 9 months. I didn’t really work out at all with my second pregnancy, thanks to 9 months of nausea. But this time, I [...]
14 May
Slow it down already!
This blog is all about health, but usually I focus on food or chemicals. There is another aspect of health that is incredibly important that I feel like we hardly think about in Western society and that is the pace of our life, the amount of stress in our surroundings, and the decisions we make [...]
25 Feb
Buying second hand
Over the past year or two, I’ve been trying to buy more things used. At first, I started with children’s clothing and shoes and now have moved on to art, rugs, furniture and baby stuff. I have always been weary of buying “someone else’s junk,” but I am over that now. My neighborhood has a [...]
