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Stop the Artificial Food Dye Madness

Imagine for a moment, if you will, a perfectly beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon at the baseball field.  You are gathered with friends and family to watch your child’s game. Smiling faces all around and the relaxed feeling of an afternoon filled with quality family time –Americana at its finest. Suddenly, out of left field comes that…

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Stop the Artificial Food Dye Madness!

Imagine for a moment, if you will, a perfectly beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon at the baseball field. You are gathered with friends and family to watch your childs game. Smiling faces all around and the relaxed feeling of an afternoon filled with quality family time Americana at its finest. Suddenly, out of left field comes that unavoidable curve ball that sends the entire idealistic afternoon into a frenzy. The snacks! Its as though suddenly everything is moving in slow motion and everyone is talking in that low-pitched monster voice.

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How Saving Your Baby’s Umbilical Cord Can Save Lives..

Thinking about discarding your babys umbilical cord? Think again. The umbilical cord, or cord tissue, is one of the most abundant sources of a stem cell called mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Preserving a part of your baby’s umbilical cord can yield an almost limitless quantity of MSCs, which could be valuable for your baby or another family member in a variety of emerging therapy treatments, such as treatment for spinal cord injury, post-heart attack heart repair, bone repair and cartilage regeneration. The Cord Blood Registry (CBR) provides you with the opportunity to save the cells in your babys umbilical cord in order to give you with the peace of mind in knowing that these cells could potentially repair your familys future health.

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Johnny Depp Receives Highest Honor

Three-time Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp was honored at the Bahamas International Film Festival with the prestigious Career Achievement Award. Screen legend Sean Connery presented the actor with the award.BIFF Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool said, “There is no actor better suited to receive BIFF’s highest honor, the Career Achievement Award,” (Id have to agree on that). She adds, “Johnny Depp is one of the finest actors of our generation and …

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Independence: A Must!

Independence: The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of ones own affairs without interference. Independence: Yours. Your childrens. How do we create our own, and foster our childrens independence? Im going to cover this topic under one umbrella, because whether youre 6, 16, 36 or 66, every girl or woman needs to be equipped with independence skills.