Health Action Magazine - Children's Health



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Help Kids Resolve Trauma
No matter how much parents want to protect their children, bad things still happen. When they do, it's important to have the resources to restore a child's resiliency and...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 5K

Newborns Affected by Environment
An increasing number of baby boys are being born with genital malformations, such as undescended testes, according to a study in the journal Epidemiology (July...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K

Bateman Inspires Kids to Get to Know the Environment
Passion for health and natural living can come from spending time outside and gaining an understanding of nature and animals. This is the main concept of Robert...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 4K

Boosting Fertility With Chinese Medicine
When Michelle finally decided to start a family in her mid-30s, she didn't expect that she would become a statistic. However, like one in six women in Canada, Michelle...
HANS Web Exclusive Fall 2009 - 5K

Trauma and Your Child: How Do You Handle It?
An Interview Between Lynn Cameron, MA, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and School Counsellor Catherine Fallis, PhD, RCC Lynn: What age group of children do you work...
HANS Web Exclusive Fall 2009 - 14K

Put Your Best Brain Forward with Kinesiology
A child's mind is wide-open. All one has to do is walk through the local mall to see the abundance of products that are making big money pandering to this fact....
HANS Web Exclusive Fall 2009 - 4K

Hidden Salt a Risk to Children
Mardi Joughin loses her sweet disposition when she talks about the dangers of unnecessary salt in processed foods. When the retired nurse and grandmother of two recently...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K

Trauma and Your Child: How Do You Handle it?
An Interview Between Lynn Cameron, MA, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and School Counsellor Catherine Fallis, PhD, RCC Lynn: What age group of children do you work...
HANS web exclusive, fall 2009 - 14K

Bateman Inspires Kids to Get to Know the Environment
Passion for health and natural living can come from spending time outside and gaining an understanding of nature and animals. This is the main concept of Robert Bateman's...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 3K

Craniosacral Therapy : Helping Infants Ease Into the World
Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a comprehensive manual therapy that developed from the explorations of the early experimental osteopaths. This slow-paced, gentle approach is...
Posted Summer 09 - 5K

What Is Craniosacral Therapy?
Last November, at a garage sale auction to raise money to deliver water to a small village in Thailand, Sean Jigolyk bid on a gift certificate for a craniosacral session with...

Nature Eases ADHD Symptoms
Research from the University of Illinois concludes that children with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder experience a decrease in symptoms while and after being in...
Health Action, Spring 2009 - 1K

Chinese Medicine for the Young and Younger
From pediatrics to geriatrics, traditional Chinese medicine treats it all. Interestingly, though, the youngest people to benefit may be those who have yet to be born. With...
Health Action, Spring 2009 - 5K

Colicky, Cranky Baby? Craniosacral Relief
Is there anything worse for a new parent than a fretful newborn who is uncomfortable and unhappy? Brenda Pulvermacher, who does a lot of work with infants and newborns at...
Health Action, Winter 2008/2009 - 1K

Global Lindane Ban Campaign Seeks Stories
Policy-makers listen to community voices. To make the right decision on lindane, officials at the US Food and Drug Administration need to hear from parents who refuse to use...
HANS e-News - April 1, 2009 - 1K

Help Ban Bisphenol A in All Food and Beverage Containers! Send an Email Now to the Ministers of the Environment and Health.
Bisphenol A has made front page news again, and this time the concern is over bisphenol A found in cans of pop and energy drinks. Recently, a study conducted by Health...
HANS e-News - March 15, 2009 - 2K

Kinesiology for Kids: Back to School Brain Training
For many kids, the thought of a new school year is exciting. For others, however, it can be incredibly stressful as they contemplate another year of something they find...
Health Action Magazine Fall 2008 - 4K

Back to School wtih Bach Flower Remedies
Kids (or you!) feeling a little anxious about the back-to-school season? Bach flower essences may be just the ticket. Doctor of natural medicine and herbalist Julietta...
Health Action Magazine Fall 2008 - 1K

Head Lice - Unwanted Guests!
It seems like at this time of year, I always have a few parents in with children that have contracted head lice and are asking what they can use to get rid of them and to not...
HANS e-News - October 1, 2008 - 2K

Story of Healing: Autism
My husband, son and I were a happy family until after our son's last set of vaccines (at 19 months of age). He stopped using words, began flapping his hands and walking on...
Health Action Magazine Summer 2008 - 1K

Autism: There is Hope
Tommy wasn't like our two other children. He spent most of his time in his own world. He had an unusually long attention span for piling his toys between his legs then mixing...
Health Action Magazine Fall 2006 - 7K

Story of Healing: Chronic Asthma
My oldest daughter suffered from chronic asthma from the age of two-and-a-half. At six years, her condition included serious and alarming life-threatening acute episodes...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2008 - 1K

Winter Immunity for Children
When Dr. Jennie Weisenburger isn't feeling well, she reaches for the sock drawer, not just the medicine cabinet. "Warming socks," an old, old traditional folk treatment,...
Healthy Horizons, Winter 2007 - 4K

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: New hope for cerebral palsy and autism
Autism and cerebral palsy affect millions of children in Canada and the United States, often resulting in severe disabilities in behaviour, cognition and motor movements....
Health Action Magazine Fall 2007 - 5K

Should I Vaccinate My Child?
My son started to talk when he was one year old. I was so excited when he first said "Mama" that I recorded the date in his baby book. He received his first MMR vaccine a few...
Health Action Magazine Fall 2007 - 6K

 
 
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