Many people have room for improvement in their food choices. For busy parents it can be difficult to juggle making healthy meals with everything else on the schedule such as: work, helping the kids with homework, and traveling to and from soccer games, scout meetings, and the likes. Many people have found that keeping healthy foods for kids to snack on can be done easily on the weekends. A good way to do this is to purchase vegetables on the weekend for the coming week. Take the time to wash and cut them and put them in see through containers in the refrigerator. Use the tactics that

Our society has changed drastically in the last half century, especially in the area of eating and nutrition. In the past, many women stayed home and took care of the family. This meant home cooked meals on a regular basis, with plenty of fruits and vegetables. Over time, with women joining the workforce and many no longer being at home full time, convenience has replaced the home cooked meal for many families.

Treating the autistic brain is never easy and different children respond to different modalities. It may take time to find what works best for your child; however, many families are discovering that neurofeedback is a great addition to treating the autistic brain. Neurofeedback has shown success with helping attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), depression, anxiety, and now autism. Neurofeedback allows a person to change their own brain waves. It takes practice, but many people show progress after just a few sessions.

Recently, my husband and I have turned a spare part of our basement family room into a home gym. By moving clutter out of half the family room, we’re better utilizing otherwise wasted space and reducing the amount oftime (and money) we have to spend in search of a good daily workout.

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Neurofeeedback for autism has proven to be very beneficial for many children. Autism is marked by failure to have proper social interactions, lack of verbal and nonverbal communication, and limited interests in activities that include playing or doing things that are outside of a normal routine. There is no one type of treatment that is used for every child. Treatments can include Applied Behavior Analysis, certain diets (gluten and casein free), speech therapy, occupational therapy, and sensory integration therapy, among others. Neurofeedback is also showing positive results for ma

If you have a child that has recently been diagnosed with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), it is important to know how to treat it. There are two main types of therapies used in treating ADD/ADHD. Many doctors believe that treatment should have more than one type of therapy, and include both medications and behavioral modification therapy. For school aged children using one or both therapies, approximately 90% improve considerably.

When a child is first diagnosed with epilepsy it can be very scary, especially if the parents are not familiar with the disorder. The unfortunate reality is that over 40 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy. It is estimated that between 40-60% of those people have no response to medications. Approximately 1% of those people will die from sudden death. With statistics like that, parent's fears about epilepsy are not only real, but valid.

If you have a child who suffers from epilepsy, it is natural to want to try everything possible to help them. Unfortunately, there are some doctors who are opposed to the Ketogenic diet and feel that there is still not enough research to support putting a child with epilepsy on it. If you think the Ketogenic diet is something you would like to try and find your doctor advises against it, you may need to find another doctor. There is a comprehensive website that can tell you where to get the Ketogenic diet. This website also lists the doctors or registered dieticians who run the program

The Mayo Clinic Ketogenic diet offers parents hope in ending seizures in their children. As it becomes more and more common for doctors to try the Ketogenic diet in children, it only makes sense that an adult with epilepsy would want to know if they too could be helped. According to the Johns Hopkins Medicine website, a study was conducted of 30 adults with epilepsy. The patients ranged from 18 to 53 years of age. They had to have tried two anti-seizure medications with no success and average 10 seizures a week. The Ketogenic diet allowed the participants only 15 grams of carbohydrat

It has long been known that a person can achieve seizure control through diet. Fasting was even discussed in biblical times. In the Bible, it talks about how Jesus healed a boy with an unclean spirit. According to Mark 9:14-29, a man brought his child who was having seizures to see Jesus. The father described how his boy would convulse and become rigid and would foam at the mouth. The father told Jesus how he had asked the disciples to cast out the spirit that made him like that. After curing the boy, the disciples asked Jesus what he did that they hadn't done to help the boy. Je