18 Reasons Why You Always Feel Bloated
Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, Health
How often do you complain about feeling bloated? If you’re like most of us, probably pretty often. Feeling bloated can affect your fashion options, what you eat, your mood, and even your self esteem. As gastroenterologist Dr. Tamara Duker…
10 Water Activities to Build Your Core
Featured Stories, Fitness & Exercise, Health
Core strength helps with everything you do including balance as well as injury prevention in everyday activities and during exercise. According to Greg McMillan, a running coach from Flagstaff, Arizona, who works with a slew of elite and recreational…
20 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From Our Drag Queen Sons & Daughters
Empowerment, Featured Stories, Health, mamiViews
We raise children knowing that they face hard knocks in life. We support them, we nurture them and we cry for them when life is tough. And then one day, they grow up and head out on their own and start teaching us a thing or two about life.…
12 Summer Dessert Ideas that Won’t Tip the Scale
Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, Health
Ahhh yes. It’s time for warmer weather, more sunshine and a chance to make some social-media-worthy memories with your friends and family. Fresh picked strawberries, ripe melons and juicy watermelons are just a few of the healthy, seasonal…
10 Natural Ways to Prevent Summer Colds
Family Health, Health, mamiViews
As the temperatures rise, it’s easy to take good health for granted. In the winter, we expect to get the sniffles from time to time and are oh-so-appreciative when the flu magically passes over our houses. In the summer, however, we expect…
15 Fun Ways Your Kids Can Earn Money this Summer
Health, mamiViews, Parenting
Summer employment is great for kids, and jobs for teens can be a great way to rev up their accountability muscles. Summer jobs for teens can also help keep them in the spirit of responsibility and prepare them for the rigors of college. They…
11 Conversations to Have with Your Child Before Sleep-Away Camp
Health, mamiViews, Parenting
Is anyone else sending their kids off to summer camp this year? For generations, sleep-away summer camps have been used as a sort of right of passage for both parents and children as the kids get a taste of what it’s like to be a bit independent…
7 Things You Should Know About Nightshade Veggies
Diet & Nutrition, Featured Stories, Health
So we’re kind of embarrassed to admit but we’ve just learned about nightshade plants. Now, don’t get us wrong, we’ve heard the term before and knew that eggplants were in the category of nightshade foods, but we always thought their…
Water Saftey 101: 10 Ways to Avoid a Drowning Accident
Health, Parenting
We all look forward to summer vacation and lazy days lounging at the beach or poolside. In such a relaxing setting, it’s easy to forget the importance of water safety, especially when it comes to kids.
Each day, approximately 10 people…