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The Five Things I Learned In My Rookie Year Being A Working Mom

This Fall, I celebrated my first anniversary of returning to “working mom” after becoming a first-time mother. Ironically, in the same month, I started a new job. In retrospect, it’s not a coincidence. They say the first year is the hardest for significant life changes. It’s a period of unknowns, new obstacles, and inevitable mistakes made along the way. And frankly, since I don’t have much to compare it to at this point, I’d say year one of being a working mom was quite the cluster.

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Thanksgivukkah Boycott

The Jewish calendar is a strange thing. Ill spare you the gory details, but the most important things to know are that its a luni-solar calendar, and that there are seven leap years in every nineteen year cycle. And leap year doesnt mean you add a day, like in the Gregorian calendar. It means you add an entire 30 day month.

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Best and Worst Nutrition Stories of 2010

As the year draws to a close, it’s a perfect time to look back on the nutrition stories that made headlines in 2010. From great strides forward to frightening recalls and strange rulings, it’s been an up-and-down year in nutrition news. Here are the top three best and worst nutrition stories of 2010, as chosen by the dietitian editors of www.HealthCastle.com. Top 3 Best Nutrition Stories of 2010