The Health Risks of Ultra-Processed Foods and Your Hearing
We all know that we have to pay certain health trade-offs for eating ultra-processed foods, be that high blood pressure or unhealthy weight increases. But, we’re betting you’ve never considered how that burger you ate for dinner will impact your hearing. And why should you, when your stomach and your ears are at least seemingly unrelated parts of the body? Or, are they? While we’re not here to say that one pizza will leave you deaf forevermore, there is a growing body of evidence that a consistently poor diet can have a gradual but undeniable impact on hearing health. In other words, eat too many pizzas, and there’s every chance…
Healthy Foods to Add to Your Diet
We have all heard the phrase ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’, and the fact of the matter is, healthy eating does keep the doctor away. Food can be seen as a form of medication. Indeed, in certain circumstances, a different diet is given to help people become well again. Type two diabetes is one example of this. But what food should we be adding to our diet? To help you choose, here are a few examples: Image from Pixabay Apples Let’s start with apples. Yes, apples are a great food to add to your diet. You can eat them raw, straight off the tree, or…
Returning to Work After Baby
Returning to work after having a baby is a difficult and emotional challenge that many moms must face. I had three months of paid maternity leave and though I had prepared for the day, so I thought, I never knew the emotional and physical challenge would be so difficult. I had been pumping and stock piling breast milk in preparation. About three weeks beforehand I started teaching little man how to take a bottle. I have heard horror stories about mama’s that didn’t do this and their infant refusing to eat when in childcare so I cannot emphasize how important this is. He hated taking a bottle from me but…
