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You know I love milk. Whether it’s skim, chocolate or yummy Simply Smart, I have at least a glass a day.  The glass typically gets mixed in with my morning cereal.
Yes, I’m a cereal person. I know that there are many more of you out there.  I could eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’ve been known to take a bowl for snack time too!  My daughter takes after me.  It may be her favorite breakfast food!  How about you? Are you a cereal person?  What’s your favorite?
In previous blog posts, I’ve shared some other breakfast ideas for moms on the go. The Jimmy D’s Griddle Stick is a popular one among many of you. With the tremendous data that supports breakfast as an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, are you doing your Smart Mama job of providing your children with a …

Are you wondering what is Hood Simply Smart Milk?  I was.  Here’s what I found out:
Hood found an innovative, natural technique called ultra filtration to remove some of the water that makes lowfat milk look and taste watery.  The result is simply delicious milk rich in nutrition and taste.  Simply Smart: All the taste, without all the fat.
Not bad. Right? Many of us love milk and most of us use it in cooking. But the skim milk we typically drink does not provide the proper consistency that we need in recipes.  Secondly, the skim milk, well it tastes like skim milk; milk that has been watered down to be of the desired calorie and fat content.  Hood has felt our yearning for the richer tasting milk that we all drank once upon a time; with its Simply Smart milk products.  Simply Smart Fat Free, 1% and Fat …

Constant running around, up and down the monkey bars, swimming in the pool and more, the days of summer are here.  We need to remember that children are humans; they require similar physical care that aging adults do. Warm ups, stretching, nutrition & hydration are equally important to an 8 year old as to a 38 year old.
Below ChicagoHealers.com practitioner Dr. Richard Ezgur, DC offers tips for parents to keep kids safe and injury free during summer sports and activities.
Warm Up – Like adults, children are also vulnerable to muscle pulls and joint sprains and strains. The most common causes of these injuries include inadequate warm-up time and stretching.  Before beginning the activity, encourage your child to take a few minutes to warm-up.

A good warm-up will imitate the actions that your body will undergo during your sport, but at a lesser intensity.  So for most kids, a …

Here’s a product I was super skeptical about.  A lollipop that fights cavities?  What?
That package arrived and as I opened it a purple lollipop fell out.  My daughter’s eyes stared and she shouted, “Yea, a lollipop for me!”  I guess so.  I let her open it up and try it.

I waited to see what her reaction would be.  I was expecting a gross look when she realized that this wasn’t the standard lollipop she was used to enjoying on occasion.  I received the opposite.  Honestly, no reaction.  She sat there, continued watching her tv program and licked away at the lollipop.
CariFree, the leading innovator in cavity treatment and prevention, has come up with a clever way to keep kids smiling and cavity free! The Xyli-Tots Lollies are sugar-free and contain Xylitol, the sugar substitute that has been shown to fight tooth decay and cavity …