Family Health Articles

40% of children are overweight or obese, and sugar addiction is thought to be partly to blame. Do you want to keep your kids off the sweet stuff? Here's nine top tips to prevent sugar addiction in children.

Recent studies reveals that early childhood years play a vital role in personality development, establishing that right kind of parenting can help raise intelligent as well as outgoing kids.

The menstrual cycle plays a key role in a woman's life, having a substantial effect on how a woman exercises and eats, plus how much weight she loses, or strength she gains. Here we look at exercise, diet and how to optimise them in each cycle.

It's time to soberly assess the situation concerning the vaccines, taking into account the fact that mankind has passed a thorny road to victory over infections, has not yet acquired a mature attitude to this great breakthrough in science, though.

This is  is a question every woman who is trying to conceive asks herself. Once you and your partner decide to try for a baby you don't want to wait for ages, do you?

Are you trying to conceive, expecting, or perhaps already a mom? The baby isle can be overwhelming. There are so many different products, many of which look great and extremely useful but aren't.

"Morning sickness" is probably the single most famous early pregnancy symptom. Most women know that it really shouldn't be called that pregnancy nausea can show up at any time of the day or night, and it may or may not lead to vomiting.

Birth doulas have been increasing in popularity. These women are there to support you through your labor and birth, making you feel more comfortable and helping you with breathing techniques, massage, and even aromatherapy.

Egg donation enables women who can't get pregnant using their own eggs to give birth to a baby. Gay couples using a gestational surrogate to carry their baby also turn to donor eggs.

It's a good job that pregnancy lasts roughly 38 weeks, because a new baby requires an awful lot of planning! What should you be doing to prepare yourself and your home for your little one?