Maria Blogs

The Holidays are over and the first week of January sees most of us groaning and regretting the gazillion amount of food we’ve gobbled up from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day.
Why, I’ve probably gained five pounds from New Year’s Eve until New Year’s Night consuming an 8×2 square of peanut butter cheese fudge. Thanks Paula [...]

The The Environmental Working Group has just released new research reports citing findings that liquid infant formula are being sold in cans lined with bisphenol-A, or BPA according to a recent CNN health news alert.

According to the FDA and infant formula manufacturers, the BPA in canned infant formula and baby bottles are within the US FDA standards and the amount leached into milk and absorbed by babies are miniscule and not harmful. There is also debate on what constitute harmful effects on humans as there is not enough research involving humans. However, BPA is known to have carcinogenic effects. Hmmmnnn.

CNN has just reported that recent studies show women under 45 are found to be at an increased risk of heart attack. Scary. Specially since most women under 45 don’t think that such a thing can happen to them. To me.
So what to look for and be on guard? Irregular Heartbeat, palpitations, difficulty breathing and [...]

A few days ago I wrote about Biotene as part of a product review for Pay Per Post. I used Biotene for almost a week to see how it was. The major plus for me was the taste, bringing back memorieres of the 80’s with it’s strong resemblance to Bazooka bubblegum taste.
Biotene professes to protect [...]

I received a sample of Biotene sensitive toothpaste in the mail for product review.Gee, why didn’t this come at the time when my mouth was a huge oral disaster[dry mouth, gingivitis, canker sores, sensitive teeth, etc etc etc] as often the case with pregnant women.

Anyway, in true spirit of product reviews, I used used up [...]