Calling All Health Experts: You Could Win $200 for Your Health, Fitness or Nutrition Article!

Health Fitness How To is a brand new article directory exclusively for health, fitness, and nutrition articles. To spread the word about their new site, they are running a great contest that could put an extra $200 in your pocket.

All you have to do is write an article related to health, fitness, or nutrition and submit it to Health Fitness How To. All article submissions will be judged on content quality, the average number of daily visitors your article attracts, an if you have linked back to Health Fitness How To on your own website or blog. Make sure to review the article submission terms before submitting your article to the contest, otherwise it may be rejected and that wouldn’t be good, especially since you’ve taken all that time to write a high-quality, expert article and all.

So, what kind of articles are Health Fitness How To looking for? According to them, they like “How To” articles the most (please note the name of their website!), since they tend to attract more readers. Your article can be in whatever format you like, but if you’re having trouble coming up with a topic, a “Tips” or “How To” article is a good place to start. As with any article you write, try to make your article as specific and focused as possible. Peopel don’t usually seatch for general health tips; people are focused and zero in on the information they want to know about. If you’re out of ideas for health, fitness, or nutrition articles, that’s okay! Just check out the Health Fitness How To article directory and review their extensive list of categories. I’m sure you’ll be able to come up with something that will wow the webmasters!

Because your chances of winning the contest are judged on how many visitors you bring to your particular article daily, here are some great article promotion tips. To promote your article, you should definitely submit your article to social networking and media sites that a great deal of people utilize on a daily basis: StumbleUpon, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Mixx, etc.

You are allowed to submit more than one article; each article is considered a single entry for the contest!

This contest ends on Friday, July 10, 2009 and a winner will be announced on Monday, July 20th, 2009; they will also be contacted directly to arrange payment.

Have fun all you health writers and good luck!

Does Your Child Have a Cold? Herbal Remedies in Child-Safe Dosages is Key!

Every year once the weather starts to get warmer, we have a series of colds in this house where everyone gets sick right after one another. Living in Pennsylvania, all of our seasons are very harsh; our winters are very cold and then out of the blue, it’s very warm so the drastic change in temperature can have really harsh affects on our immune systems.

Parents are very weary of medication in most cases, and for good reason. Most medications contain harsh chemicals drowsiness, and those same chemicals that are in medications find themselves in our waterways quite frequently, which end up in our drinking water supply which is never good! Thinking about being medicated just by drinking a cup of water from your tap is pretty unsettling. Luckily, there are some great herbal remedies on the market for children, thus eliminating those harsh chemicals from our water supply and also leave your child feeling great, helping them get over their colds faster without sleeping the days away and becoming nocturnal!

The FDA actually recommends against treating children under four with drugstore cough and cold medicines, warning of potentially severe side effects and a 2007 pediatric study found that kids slept better and coughed less after a dose of honey than after a dose of honey-flavored cough suppressant; just keep in mind that children under one year old should not eat honey because of botulism risk. So what better reasons are there to look into herbal remedies!?

Some children’s herbal remedies and medications to look into are Herbs for Kids Throat Spray, it is certified organic, peppermint-flavored spray with echinacea and thyme, which thins mucus. It is recommended for kids age one and up. Traditional Medicinals Just for Kids Organic Cold Care is a tea with elderflower, which treats congestion and helps break fevers. It is recommended for kids two and up. Hyland’s Homeopathic Complete Flu Care 4 Kids is an immune-boosting, dissolving tablet that relieves fever, aches, cough, and congestion. It is recommended for kids two and up.

If you’re looking for a DIY at home herbal remedy so you know exactly what you’re giving to your kids, just mix 1 cup of honey with 1/2 cup of thyme and heat on the stove for 15 minutes. Serve 1 tsp warm (not hot!) three times a day. This is recommended only for kids two and up.

Wake Up Every Morning to a New Yoga Workout

I have just recently started doing yoga; something I have been interested in starting for years. I had put off starting yoga for so long due to a myriad of reasons, the biggest of my worries being that I was so out of shape that I wouldn’t be able to do it. Last February, for Valentine’s Day, my boyfriend presented me with a pink yoga mat and two beginners DVDs, knowing how interested I had been in starting to do yoga. I began immediately and after making it through my two DVDs enough times, I started to crave more of a variety.

Because living frugally is key in many households, buying a new workout DVD is slotted as a splurge and not something that someone will purchase under most circumstances. That is why I was so excited to come across Yoga Today, a website that is featuring a new yoga class every single day. Every morning when you wake up, there will be a new class posted by yoga experts to help you step by step through the workout of the day, seven days a week, plus you can watch past classes if you miss a day or are just starting. Best of all, all of the classes on Yoga Today are free!

Here’s a little more information about YogaToday:

Washington State’s First Death Under New ‘Death with Dignity’ Law

Linda Fleming, a 66 year old woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to die with dignity under Washington state’s new assisted suicide law, Death with Dignity, which took effect in March. Fleming died at home with her family, her dog, and her physician at her bedside after taking a lethal dose of prescribed drugs.

The new law was approved last November with nearly 60% of the vote in favor of passing the assisted suicide law. Under the law, in order to end your life you must be at least 18 years of age, declared competent, and be a state resident. Two doctors would have to certify if the patient has a terminal condition and six months or less to live. The patient must make two oral requests for the procedure, 15 days apart, and make a written request witnessed by two people.

For physicians and pharmacists who are opposed to the law, they are not required to write or fill lethal prescriptions and even some hospitals have opted out of the law, which precludes their doctors from participating on hospital property.

Assisted suicide has been a controversial topic for many generations, but it is great to see a state that is giving its citizens a way to have control over their own fates; someone who has less than six months to live and who is suffering astronomical amounts of pain due to their illness, I believe, has every right to die in a manner that they see fit. We see a great deal of cases where patients are in too much pain than they can handle and who want to die; the least we can do is give them a compassionate and dignified way out.

What do you think? Do you want to see other states introduce assisted suicide laws?

You and Bumble Bee Foods Can Help the Breast Cancer Network of Strength

Many companies and organizations have done great work through the years raising awareness as well as money for research for breast cancer; a cancer that undoubtedly plagues countless women and the people who love them every single year. This year Bumble Bee Foods are doing what they can to help women battling breast cancer who can’t wait for a cure.

The Breast Cancer Network of Strength has helped thousands of people find the information they need to make educated and informed decisions through their 24/7 Hotline and YourShoes peer counselors. While they don’t give medical advice, they do help the women battling breast cancer and their families by explaining what they are likely to encounter in their lives due to breast cancer and beyond.

To help the Breast Cancer Network of Strength, Bumble Bee Foods will donate 15 cents up to $200,000 for every mile logged on their website, BeeWell Miles from April 1st to December 31, 2009. The BeeWell Miles program was created to make it easy for people to get active and help those in need of support and information.

With BeeWell Miles, your healthy lifestyle will go a long way. Just log the miles you walk or run in one day on their website and see how much of a difference you have made and can continue to make through the end of the year. BeeWell Miles can also help you and your journey through a healthy lifestyle, giving you the ability to interact with healthy living experts, share your favorite route with others and calculate the route’s mileage. You can also enter the meals you eat every day to see and understand your calorie intake, and you are also able to speak to other people on the path to a healthy lifestyle and who are also helping Bumble Bee Foods and the Breast Cancer Network of Strength.

Stem Cells in Menstrual Blood

Stem cell research is undoubtedly a hot and controversial topic with people nation-wide as well as internationally. The topic only grew more heated in early March when Barack Obama overturned a ban on federal funding human embryonic stem cell research and promised to remove all ideology from scientific studies. However, no matter what your position on stem cell research is, it can undoubtedly mean great things for the health industry and go on to cure many illnesses and diseases, such as diabetes, cardiac, stroke, vascular regeneration, and many cancers.

It has been hypothesized that menstrual blood contains a viable source of stem cells to be utilized or preserved for future use, providing an ideal source for a vast range of stem cell research and therapies. In November 2007 Cryo-Cell announced a discovery of stem cell technology, launching the world’s first commercial service to allow women to collect and cryopreserve their own stem cells, found in their own menstrual blood.

Menstrual blood contains millions of adult stem cells that demonstrate properties similar to bone marrow and embryonic stem cells. The stem cells found in menstrual blood rapidly multiply, turning into possibly every cell type in the human body.

Whether you agree with stem cell research or not, everyone supports the research to cure many illnesses and diseases and retrieving stem cells from menstrual blood would not infringe upon anyone’s moral code, considering that menstrual blood is something that arrives monthly for all women.

This miraculous discovery was hypothesized and put in motion by C’elle , a company that has created an easy-to-use collection kit to collect life-saving stem cells found naturally in the menstrual blood of women. You can read more about their company and work at the C’elle Blog .

Cheerios Circle of Helping Hearts & Freshwater Pearl Bracelet Giveaway! *CLOSED*

This giveaway has ended. Winners are announced here.

Coronary heart disease is the number one cause of death in women. This disease is highly preventable, a major controllable factor is high cholesterol, yet a great deal of women have limited access to adequate health care, making it very difficult for them to get regular cholesterol screenings and putting them at an even greater risk for heart disease.

A recent study conducted by Harris Interactive for Cheerios found that more than one-third of adults (approximately 37%) have not had their cholesterol checked within the past year. With the state of our economy crumbling, less and less women are paying attention to their heart health or may not even know that they are at risk for coronary heart disease. If these women were able to get the cholesterol screenings they need, we would see the number of heart disease-related deaths in women drop dramatically.

Now through January 31, 2010, Cheerios is helping women in need through its partnership with WomenHeart. On the inside of every specially marked boxes of Cheerios, a code is printed on the inside. For every code entered at www.cheerioshelpinghearts.com, Cheerios will donate $1, up to $200,000 to raise awareness for heart disease and provide free cholesterol screenings for women in need who could not otherwise afford to receive cholesterol screenings.

Freshwater Pearl Bracelet Giveaway

We are giving away a timeless freshwater pearl bracelet with a heart charm from Charity Charms to 3 lucky winners. Charity Charms donates a portion of the proceeds from its charms to various charities and by wearing the charm bracelet, you can show your dedication to raising awareness of women’s heart health.

To win a freshwater pearl bracelet all you have to do is leave a comment about what you do to maintain a healthy heart.

For additional entries, you can:
• Blog about this giveaway on your blog and comment here with the URL.

• Twitter about this contest and comment here with the URL of your update.

This contest is open to U.S. residents only and ends on March 31, 2009 at 12am EST. 3 winners will be announced April 1, 2009.

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Make Your Voice Heard: The Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act

Next week, Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Joe Barton (R-TX) will be reintroducing the legislation to Congress that will help protect women after undergoing procedures to treat breast cancer.

The Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act is a critical step needed to end the horrible practice of “drive-through” mastectomies, which forced women to check out of the hospital sometimes only hours after invasive breast cancer surgery.

Make your voice heard and call your Representatives in Congress and urge them to be an original cosponsor of this legislation.

To reach your member of Congress, call the US House of Representatives switchboard at 202.225.3121. To find your Representative, visit the US House of Representatives’ website.

China Bans Actors from Playing Medical Experts in Ads for Drugs

China has recently banned actors and any “non-accredited personnel” from appearing in advertisements for drugs. This recent ban is part of China’s broadcast watchdog, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television’s agenda to clean up the country’s famous advertising industry that has been an ongoing battle in recent years.

Fake drug and food quality scandals are plaguing the country and this specific ban went into effect after numerous scandals broke out over the past two months regarding the health of Chinese people in several provinces due to fake drugs marketed by non-professional medicinal personnel.

A Chinese internet user late last month exposed 12 fake “experts” selling medicine under various disguises and named on television stations in Shandong province which sparked an online uproar over false endorsements. Earlier this month Chinese police arrested at least five people in connection with a fake diabetic drug linked to the deaths of at least two people and sold to thousands of patrons in several provinces. China has also sentenced two men to death for their role in making and selling milk tainted with melamine (an industrial compound) where at least six children died and nearly 300,000 people fell ill after drinking toxic dairy products last year.

The specifics of China’s new ban includes that non-accredited personnel would be banned from such advertisements and other health programs carried on television and further breaches would see advertisers and companies’ advertising licenses revoked and “temporary suspensions of sales for their medicinal products.”

Help Fight Ovarian Cancer with Cupcakes!

Everyone certainly has their own way of celebrating Valentine’s Day, but this year Electrolux and Kelly Ripa are getting proactive in the spirit of Valentine’s Day and helping the fight against ovarian cancer with cupcakes! Well, virtual cupcakes, that is.

Electrolux is asking people to participate in a unique and charitable social media campaign where people can create and send virtual cupcakes to friends, family, co-workers, or anyone else you think could use a smile in the spirit of Valentine’s Day and charity!

For every virtual cupcake sent, Electrolux will donate $1 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) as part of their half million dollar commitment to help support ovarian cancer research. And if doing something simply in the name of charity doesn’t seem too appealing to you, everyone who logs on and sends a cupcake will be entered for a chance to win a new Red Hot Red front-load washer and dryer from Electrolux. So whether you want to help fund ovarian cancer research or you want to win a $3,600 washer and dryer, head on over to Kelly Confidential and start sending those cupcakes!

If you want additional chances to win the Red Hot Red front-load washer and dryer, Mom Central is having a giveaway. All you have to do is register or log in to the Electrolux website and send a virtual cupcake then log in to Mom Central and leave a comment about what cupcake you sent and what make you send it as well as why you believe you deserve to win an Electrolux washer and dryer. Yes, it is that easy.

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