by Fitness Editor Paula Jager, CSCS Owner of Crossfit Jaguar on May 6, 2013
Our derriere is defined by 3 muscles known as the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. The right combination of strength training, metabolic conditioning and nutrition will build the booty of your dreams. Most women are always on the quest for a better bottom and with bathing suit season approaching there’s not much room for reasoning with this.
Those that are genetically predisposed to the J Lo backside often want to shape it smaller and those with a “flat” butt envy them and want to make it more bubble like.
Are we ever satisfied? Probably not but whatever backside we are given we can always make it better. Personally I was cursed/blessed with ample booty and more closely resemble the J Lo type. No matter your genetics here’s the booty scoop. . . [click to continue…]
by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on May 5, 2013
Lentil soup is a regular feature on the menu in our home. The reason? All 3 kids like it, along with Mom and Dad!
With many of my other soups, only one or two of the children like it but the third does not. It’s so nice to have a go to soup made with nourishing, homemade broth that no one is going to complain about and everyone will eat up with smiles on their faces!
As a bonus, lentils are also perhaps the most nutritious of all legumes.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on May 3, 2013
I’ve known Jimmy and Amy Cazin, owners of Primal Pit Paste, for a long time – ever since I met Jimmy through his sister Laura who used to coach one of my children’s soccer teams. I got to know Jimmy and Amy better when Jimmy was the Pastor of a Church in my local community that runs a very well respected preschool. I was fortunate to have one of my children attend this awesome program.
Jimmy and Amy are big advocates of Traditional Diet and longtime members of the local food buying club I’ve coordinated since 2006.
As Amy became more and more knowledgeable about healthy eating in recent years, she realized that what she and her family were putting on their skin in the way of personal care products was also extremely important. In particular, she noticed that the natural deodorants on the market didn’t work very well, but the conventional ones that did were nothing short of toxic and full of dangerous, hormone altering chemicals.
Amy began experimenting with various ingredients for homemade deodorant and eventually hit upon the recipe that would become Primal Pit Paste, the company she and Jimmy founded together.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on May 2, 2013
New research from the University of Adelaide in Australia and published in the Journal of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology has uncovered scientific evidence regarding what many mothers already knew with simple common sense.
Eating junk food during pregnancy and lactation can lead to children who are already addicted to junk food by the time they are weaned.
The team of scientists led by Dr. Bev Muhlhausler, Postdoctoral Fellow in the University`s FOODplus Research Centre, is the first to study and demonstrate the biological effects of maternal junk food consumption on offspring at an early stage in their development.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on May 1, 2013
The right of parents to determine the course of medical treatment for their children has suffered yet another slap in the face.
On April 29, 2013, a hearing took place regarding the Gestapo style abduction by Child Protective Services of 5 month old baby Sammy after his parents, Alex and Anna Nikolayev, took him out of Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento.
They left Sutter Memorial in order to seek a second opinion at Kaiser Permanente, a rival hospital, for Sammy’s flu-like symptoms.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 29, 2013
Omega-3 fats are currently the darling of conventional and alternative medicine alike.
Fish oil capsules loaded with these heart healthy “good fats” are flying off the shelves of healthfood stores and are prominently featured on supplement displays in many doctors’ offices.
You can even buy fish oil at Wal-Mart!
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 27, 2013
A Sacramento couple is without their 5 month old baby after Child Protective Services sent in the police to forcibly remove the child from their care.
A hearing is scheduled for Monday, April 29, 2013 on the incident which was triggered when Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex took baby Sammy out of Sutter Memorial Hospital and sought a second opinion at Kaiser Permanente, a rival hospital, for Sammy’s flu-like symptoms.
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by Konstantin Monastyrsky on April 26, 2013
Above all, a no-fail weight loss diet must contain less energy than your body expends throughout the day, otherwise you aren’t going to lose fat or may even gain more. Any time you encounter a weight loss plateau or rebound, this is an indication that you are consuming more calories than your body is expending on energy and structural metabolism.
After experiencing several consecutive weight loss failures, you may easily start believing that “diets don’t work, period!” With these failures in mind, ask yourself the following hypothetical question: “What if I suddenly end up on a desert island with nothing but water? Won’t I keep losing weight until rescued?”
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 25, 2013
Doug Bartlett, a veteran teacher with an upstanding record of 17 years, has filed a lawsuit against the school district of Chicago for suspending him without pay after giving a lesson on gardening tools to his second grade students.
The incident took place on August 8, 2011 at Washington Irving Elementary School.
Mr. Bartlett recently filed suit on April 17, 2013 saying that he suffered humiliation and embarrassment as a result of his reprimand.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 24, 2013
When most people think of drones, they think of the picture to the right. An unmanned, aerial vehicle used in wartime situations on foreign soil.
While this perception is certainly true, the FAA Reauthorization Act signed into law in 2012 took the concept of drones to an entirely new – and frightening – level.
Predator drones once confined to the battlefields are already being used domestically for a wide range of functions. According to the Rutherford Institute, at least 30,000 drones will occupy U.S. airspace by 2020, a staggering $30 billion per year industry.
And these drones are not what you think they are.
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