When you’re looking for healthy and delicious recipes, it can get quite overwhelming! There are hundreds and hundreds of recipe blogs out there that claim to be healthy, but still share recipes that are full of refined sugars and processed foods. We've already brought you the Top 100 Healthy Mom Blogs, but we couldn't stop there! We had to bring …
10 Ways To Teach Your Kids Compassion for Animals
Learning about human encroachment, global warming and habitat destruction is important if we want to raise our children to be good global citizens. It's even more important if we want them to have compassion for animals. This year, Nature's Path EnviroKidz is giving away an EnviroTrip to Belize to experience conservation first hand! Keep on …
Mamavation’s List of 100+ Healthy Mom Blogs
When you're looking for resources and information on healthy living and natural parenting advice, who do you turn to? Other moms, of course! The internet is full of blogs that provide tips, recommendations, recipes, DIYs, tutorials, etc., to help you get on and stay on a path to healthy living. If you are coming to Mamavation for assistance, we are …
Sibling Rivalry with JP Sears and Leah Segedie of Mamavation & ShiftCon
Sibling rivalry. Have you ever wondered what childhood was like for JP Sears and Leah Segedie of Mamavation? Well, we are about to show you. Here are a couple of questions that will be answered soon for you about what it was like growing up with JP Sears. What was JP Sears like as a child? Did JP Sears wet the bed? Did JP Sears ever read …
Study: Fragrance Ingredients in Axe Body Spray is Connected With a Lack of Virility & Fertility
That Axe Body Spray you’re bathing in before a hot date is ruining your junk! A bunch of male scientists got together to look at some common ingredients in male shampoos, body sprays & colognes. What they found was shocking. In fact, after reading this post you may decide to chuck your Axe Body Spray in the trash where it belongs. We've …
Why Your Kid Doesn’t Need Sports Drinks
Sports drinks. They show up every Saturday on the sidelines of soccer games: the six-packs of Gatorade and Powerade in neon colors. And they make me crazy. Because the truth is, most kids don’t need them. Even if they just played a hard game. And even if they were sweating. Sports drinks were originally created for serious athletes who needed …
Mamavation’s Ultimate Green and Non-Toxic Gift Guide for Newborns & Mothers
New moms are thrust into a world full of diapers and cries, leaks, tears and sleepless nights. When their world is turned into a constant blur with tunnel vision only for baby, they deserve the best in love and care to support their little family. When mama is ready for a visit, be sure to bring along a thing or two for her that will make her …
Pesticides and Children’s Health: Waging War
Are you concerned about our children's health? The Americana -focused fictional version of healthy clean living farm is, in fact, a stark contrast to the amount of health issues children have had from their ongoing exposure to agricultural pesticides. Think of pesticides as a demonic figure lurking in the corn, contaminating our children with …
6 Simple Baby Meals with Ultimate Nutrition
There are many single-ingredient meals that are nutritious for babies, but sometimes it’s challenging to put simple baby meals together into meals that feel complete, especially if you’re trying to make a meal the whole family can enjoy! By starting with the Eleven Foundation Foods from our book, What to Feed Your Baby, you will provide the best …
McDonald’s Pulls School Outreach From Public Outrage After Blogger Breaks Story
Public outrage in schools over nutrition because one blogger you don't upset is Bettina Siegel. She's awesome...and an attorney by trade. Bettina is the creator of the blog The Lunch Tray, which focuses on “kids and food, in school and out." And as of recently, she's been quite a thorn in the side of McDonalds. McDonalds 540 Meals …
More BPA Exposure in Womb Equals a Fatter Child
Pregnant moms are bombarded with rules about their health from beginning to end. There are rules about seafood, soft cheese, drinking alcohol and even getting into a Jacuzzi. But with all these things to remember, no one saw this coming: Pregnant moms are now being warned to avoid BPA exposure in order to protect their baby from a lifetime of …
Concerned Moms: Nanoparticles in Baby Formula
Okay, so chances are you clicked on this article because you were thinking "what the hell is are nanoparticles and why are they in baby formula?" Well, I'm going to tell you, and give you all the info from a report just released by Friends of the Earth that tested six major formula brands. What is Nanotechnology and What are …