Small Steps to Health

The Flex Diet Review

A new year, a new diet? Like most people this time of year, one of my New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. The only difference is that I am planning to start in May after the birth of my baby and some recovery time rather than start in January like everyone else. But that [...]

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Reduce the Cost of Medicine with Pill Splitting

Previously I discussed how to reduce the cost of prescriptions with generic drugs. Today I want to talk about how to reduce cost of medicine with pill splitting. Many prescription drugs cost the same regardless of the tablet size. That’s right — 20 mg of Lipitor cost the same as the 40 mg version. Why [...]

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! 2010 has been a great year for me, but I know 2011 will be even better. I want to thank every one of you – new and old readers – for being here and supporting me and the site. With billions of websites on the internet, I am honor that you find [...]

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Are Generic Drugs As Effective and Safe as Brand Name Drugs?

Generic drugs are one of the best ways to reduce cost of prescription medication. Within the next few years you will see a flood of expensive brand name prescription medication lose their 20 year patents. Any qualified drug manufacturer that meets FDA standards can produce cheap, high-quality copies of what had once been an expensive [...]

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Voice to Text Software: Dragon Naturally Speaking Review

This post is a review of the voice to text software called Dragon Naturally Speaking. I’m sure that my regular readers notice a decrease in my blogging frequency in the last couple of months.  One of the symptoms that I developed early on from my pregnancy is mild carpal tunnel on my right wrist.  Since [...]

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How to Reduce the Cost of Prescription Drugs

Do you know that your doctor is your best ally when it comes to keeping down the cost of prescription drugs? However, the cost of prescription drugs is not the first thing your doctor thinks about when she pulls out a prescription pad. The existing health insurance system makes it easy for her to prescribe [...]

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Prescription Medication: Why Doctors Prescribed What They Do

In the United States you cannot purchase a prescription medication without a prescription from a doctor. Regardless of the type of drugs, many people die from drug overdoses. You probably believe your doctor learn about new drugs from reading scientific research from medical journals, from his own experience prescribing medicine to his patients, or from [...]

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Exercise During Pregnancy

This post is a discussion on the benefits of exercise during pregnancy and what is considered safe pregnancy exercises. I discovered that you cannot expect to pick up right where you left off prior to getting pregnant. As a matter of fact, exercise during pregnancy has its own unique set of challenges, especially since I am still dealing with my torn hip labrum.

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Random Ramblings of a Pregnant Woman

Pregnancy has been easy for me physically, even with the increase in my hip pain, but it has been hard for me mentally.  Pregnancy really slows you down because your body is so busy growing these tiny hands and feet.  You’ll think I would relish this time to take it easy and sit around with [...]

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Letting Go of Pregnancy Weight Gain Fears

I have a relatively healthy relationship with food and my weight.  I am neither underweight nor overweight prior to getting pregnancy.  But when for some reason as I viewed my partially nude body when I was getting ready for bed last night, I started worrying about my weight gain during pregnancy. I talk about exercise [...]

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Torn Hip Labrum during Pregnancy

A reader recently sent me an email asking how my torn hip labrum is doing with my pregnancy.  Prior to getting pregnancy, the pain level on my hip is probably in the range of 2-3 (on a scale of 1-10 with 10 the most painful).  Hence, my doctor does not think surgery would help with my [...]

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Hawaiian Hula Dancers

My husband and I spent the last week and a half celebrating the end of my first trimester with some much needed R&R in Hawaii. And who goes to Hawaii without attending a Luau? Hawaiian hula dancers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are obviously overweight (coconuts and a grass skirt do not hide [...]

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Deep Tissue Massage using Foam Roller Exercises for Hip Pain, Part 2

It’s been a crazy few weeks dealing with my overwhelming exhaustion from my pregnancy.  This is a little late, but better than never.  Here is the final post on deep tissue massage using foam roller exercises.  Included in this post are some pdf’s from around the internet with pictures and instructions showing you how to [...]

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MIA

Sorry for being MIA lately.  I’ve been really distracted by my newest health development.  I’ve been paying tribute to the porcelain bowl in my bathrooms and mostly sleeping my life away.  Some mornings my dark eye bags jolts me awake faster than any cup of coffee.  And dragging my ass around is getting old.  Exercise?  [...]

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Deep Tissue Massage using Foam Roller Exercises for Hip Pain, Part 1

In this post I will discussion why deep tissue massage is a must for anyone with tight muscles or an injury, in particular for someone with a torn hip labrum like me, and how you can do deep tissue massage therapy at home using form roller exercises.

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Motivation to Exercise (Here’s the Secret Ingredient)

During our annual camping trip with a group of friends, one family brought a projector, projector screen, and laptop.  So every night while making smores, we watched a movie under the sky.  One night we watched Kung Fu Panda.  I don’t like Jack Black too much so I never felt the desire to watch Kung [...]

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Update on Adult Eczema Treatment

In a previous post about adult eczema treatment, I talked about changing some of our household products to help prevent my husband’s adult eczema.  I am please to tell my readers that his eczema is finally gone! Yea! <doing virtual victory dance> However, our household expenses have also gone up because my husband needs to [...]

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Picking on Facebook

I am a total dunce when it comes to pop culture.  I rarely contribute to any discussion about the latest episode of America Got Talent or American Idol.  Sometimes my friends wonder out loud whether I live in a cave.  To some extent, I do.  I try to insulate myself from activities that do not [...]

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A Lifetime of Healthy Eating Habits and Exercise Cost You More Money

An article caught my eye as I flipped through the August issue of Money magazine entitled the “High Price of Healthy Living.”  It is an article with a few graphed statistics. I guess the headline worked because it slowed my flipping down to see exactly how having healthy eating habits and exercise can cost me [...]

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