Snack Attack Oh, the beloved snack. In my series of posts based on my interview with author of Getting To Yum and French Kids Eat Everything,Karen Le Billon discusses the problem with too many snacks. “In France, it’s one snack per day about two hours before dinner,”...
February is Children's Dental Health month. In honor of children, I want to share some parenting insight and tricks to keep our kids healthy. I see lots of kids as a dentist, and I have two of my own. As parents, I know we tend...
“My kids went from basically a beige food diet to eating and loving a whole, wide variety of foods–-mussels, salad…my younger daughter’s favorite food now is stinky, blue cheese, ” said Karen Le Billon, author of Getting To Yum and French Kids Eat Everything. Would you...
Feel like you are burning the candle at both ends? Or maybe the dental hand piece at both ends? I certainly do at times, and that's why I took the time to interview Dr. Tracey Marks, a psychiatrist in Atlanta. She told me about the field...
Weight lifting gives me a lot of juice. Maybe it's because I have watched one too many Rocky films or comically think back to Hans and Franz from Saturday Night Live and their endless efforts to "Pump you up!" I really do get pumped up from...
If my son decides to play football, I want him to be the kicker...
People speak volumes with their hands. If someone shakes my hand with such vigor and force that my knuckles turn white, I immediately recognize this as an awareness issue. Either the person is so nervous that they cannot control the force of adrenal flowing through their...
The wild success Lucy Hobbs Taylor had as a dentist in Kansas, Missouri, undoubtedly occurred because of her ability to teach. During a time period when women were not dentists, she trailblazed her way through Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, and then finally Kansas. But, where did...