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Home remedies: Honey for a cough

Studies have shown honey to be more effective to treat a cough than OTC cough medicines. When I first saw the report last year I wondered how I’d get honey into my kids – would they really lick super-sweet honey off a spoon? Mine are too young to stir it into hot water as some [...]

Mylicon drops recalled

Parents of infants take note! The Mylicon drops so many of us use to soothe our babies when their tummies are upset have been recalled. There’s a possibility that they could contain metal fragments from the manufacturing process. Click here for more information about the recall. It effects only the non-staining (“good”) drops that are [...]

New studies on BPA

Bisphenol-A. Or BPA for short. We’ve said a few things about it over the years, and we’ve cautioned you against certain plastics. See, BPA is a plasticizer, which means it makes plastic, well, plasticy. The problem is, it also interferes with the way your body functions, and unfortunately it leeches out of plastics and into [...]

The media even knows it!

We go to the supermarket, we assume that what’s on the shelf is harmless. But precious few know about the acute and long-term health hazards of household chemical-based cleaners. Here at Broom Huggers we’ve been trying to educate consumers, but now a news station has picked it up and done a piece on it. Check [...]

What’s in your medicine cabinet?

The medicine cabinet is not part of day-to-day cleaning, but it’s no less important. It’s where you turn when you wake up with a fever, when the baby’s teething, when allergies assault your eyes and sinuses, and this season – cold season – you may be turning to it for help all too often. So [...]

Cold season in full swing

Thankfully, we’ve kept colds at bay in our house with some awesome Shaklee supplements for grown-ups and kids. But this study came out the other day, in Canada, and I have to say I’m not surprised. Basically, it notes that high-touch areas in the house are likely to be contaminated with cold-causing viruses like rotavirus.

Doorknobs, [...]

A mother’s dilemma

Knowing this, and knowing that sugar attacks the immune system, I wonder what to do with all that Halloween candy as my children crawl out of their beds this morning with sniffles and coughs…

Cleaning your oven racks

Q from Anna: I need to clean my oven and it seems like food is baked into the enamel. My cleaning person wants to use easy off but I don’t. I read you can use cider vinegar and baking soda and it will clean it. Others say put your racks in a bath tub with [...]

Sinfully Cinnamon!

Well, even though cinnamon is key in decadent goodies like warm, gooey cinnamon buns and apple pies, it’s actually a very healthy ingredient. We posted a while back about the benefits of cinnamon in fighting fungus and microbes, but as it turns out, there’s more to it than that.
A teaspoon of cinnamon a day can [...]

Sugar nation

Did you know that the average American consumes 34 teaspoons of sugar per day? Yikes! Sugar content is high in things you’d probably anticipate – sodas, sugary cereals – but it’s also high in items you wouldn’t normally considered high in sugar, like ketchup, yogurt, cranberry juice, toothpaste, bread, sports drinks, peanut butter, barbeque sauce [...]