In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here is another brilliant mushroom-inspired recipe, ideal for a healthy diet that fights cancer.
Recipe: Mushroom Harvest Bowl
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Mushrooms pose as a self-care step to prevent breast cancer
In 2010, the Beckman Institute at the City of Hope Cancer Centre in California found that eating just 10g of mushrooms a day more than halved people's risk of developing breast cancer. That means by eating only one mushroom per day may hep you to avoid the disease's...
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A girl’s vaginal health is one of those things that no one wants to talk about, but everyone has to know about. Ensuring that your intimate areas are healthy and well is very important and there is one little number – your vagina’s pH – that you need to know about in order to be able to keep it healthy and infection-free.
This is my work-life balancing act as a mom
No one ever said adulting would be easy. Nor did anyone say being a working mom would be easy. Some might imply that it is easier than what I would like to admit, but still, it’s not easy. I’ve been struggling with the work-life balancing act as a mom the last couple of weeks, so I went and read up about how to simplify things. Here are a few things that proved to be helpful (and also reassuring in a way):
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Time to swap your coffee for a good cup of tea
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