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Why Limiting Screen Time Helps Kids

By Valerie Latona | Apr 3, 2014
Proof about something I’ve always believed: a new study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found children get more sleep, do better in ...
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Vitamin D: Are You Getting Enough?

By Valerie Latona | Mar 15, 2013
Sitting in the sun helps your body make vitamin D. Known as the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D is actually a ...
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When It Comes to Health, Women Aren’t Men

By Valerie Latona | Jan 16, 2013
I read an enlightening-and at the same time disturbing-article in The New York Times about how women should be taking less (half ...
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I am Not Superwoman: Hear me Roar!

By Valerie Latona | Mar 29, 2011
We live in a society where doing more, being more, having more is lauded … I lived that life for ...
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Get More Sleep…Starting Tonight!

By Valerie Latona | Apr 22, 2020
It was Saturday morning. My toddler son was finally down for a late-morning nap —after fussing, fussing for the better ...
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Skip lunch/coffee with a friend … and try this instead!

By Valerie Latona | Feb 15, 2012
Today I was supposed to have lunch with an acquaintance of mine—and instead, she suggested we go for an early ...
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