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Bed-wetting, or nocturnal enuresis, can be divided into two types: primary nocturnal enuresis and secondary nocturnal enuresis. These two types are very different in their causes and treatments.
On a summer trip to Canada, I was stopped in my tracks with the realization of how far my family falls short with our recycling efforts. I opened my friend’s kitchen cupboard to look for the trashcan. Instead of the doublewide I have at my...
“I live by the truth that ‘No’ is a complete sentence.
I rest as a spiritual act.”–Anne Lamott, O Magazine
Most of us think of caring for ourselves as an extra-curricular activity. Something we squeeze into our lives at the end of the day. Or when...
“My life will always have dirty dishes.
If this sink can become a place of contemplation,
let me learn constancy here.”
–Gunilla Norris, Being Home
Here’s something that mystifies me: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer...
You may be buying healthy foods like whole grains, organic veggies and milk, and even local honey, but now it's time to consider the "health" of your kitchen. Your cabinets and refrigerator can be just as safe, green, and nontoxic as the...
“When you take care of the clutter on the inside,
The clutter on the outside takes care of itself.”
–Stephanie Bennett Vogt
I am a packrat.
There, I said it.
A first step in a fresh approach to bring a sense of calm into your every day is transforming reality and your relationship to it. Just as I need to delete my cell phone’s voicemails and my computer’s emails, my brain needs to download...
Everyone's heard the cliché "you are what you eat." And, it's true - your health is intimately connected to the foods and drinks you put in your mouth. But, have you ever stopped to consider what other impacts your food choices may...
If you can't hide it, embrace it.
From fairly early on after being diagnosed with Arthritis, my joints started to change. I used to get embarrassed at people looking at my hands - they look like an 80-year-old woman's hands. A newspaper reporter...
I have incredible confidence, but for the most part it's incredibly quiet confidence, borne of a life spent in pain and taking every day and every accomplishment as a personal, private victory.
Only I know what I have been through, and I couldn't...
I wrote Feeding Baby Greene to help you learn how to teach your children to recognize and love healthy amounts of healthy foods, starting even before birth. That's what I call Nutritional Intelligence.
The other lesson from Sayedpur didn't strike home until we visited a nearby similar urban slum called Jethury the next day.
In Sayedpur, skin and clothes were dirty and frayed. Flies fed on the mucus running down babies' noses, without the mothers...
In the narrow strip of India that separates Nepal from Bangladesh lies a tiny rural village called Chenga. The village is surrounded by fields, each a patchwork mosaic of knee-high tea trees in various shades of green.
The fields are surrounded by...
I'm proud to be with my dear friend and Howard Schiffer, CEO of Vitamin Angels working together in India.
This video was filmed live in Muhundapur India where we distributed vitamins 3,000 people. When we arrived, there were already over 1,000...
To me the name Calcutta had long carried with it the idea of incalculable poverty and destitution, of Mother Theresa's work with the poorest of the poor. It was the epicenter of need.
But there are at least four levels of poverty below that found...
The alarm on my otherwise useless cell phone went off at 5:30 am. We were leaving early to meet and distribute vitamins to the children of Bhatpara, the most remote village we had visited yet.
India is crowded. Even rural areas have bustling street...
I've ridden the wooden Cyclone roller-coaster at Cony Island just one time. One minute and fifty seconds in the apple-red car, etched in time.
The spine-jarringly rough ride and being thrown from side to side as the car lurched through its turns...
When I travel, I try to eat and enjoy what my host sets before me, even if it might otherwise make me squeamish. Of course, I'll make my food preferences known if asked or if appropriate. But when the host has gone to great trouble or expense as a...
An important study of chronic illness in children uncovered a dramatic change between 1994 and 2006. The study followed thousands of 2 to 8 year old children for 6 years. Twice a year, the researchers looked for the presence of any physical or...
Dr. Greene discusses with Dr. Oz, What's going down your drain?
Set your TiVo to see Dr. Greene on the Dr. Oz Show. Tuesday, March 23rd. Check your local listing for time.
I have heard that fruit and vegetables grown in greenhouse harmful for the health. So far, I could not find any research or substantial information about this. Does anybody know anything about this subject?
Stephanie Bennett Vogt, MA., is the author of Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are and a leading expert in the field of space clearing. She writes and teaches internationally on topics of tending the home, restoring...
My daughter has them, and they've never shown up during any of the 3 EEG's...
I have her. She's 6. Only difference is her behavior is worse away from home...
Try giving him bananas to eat throughout the day. Two or three a day would...
Have her blood sugar checked by her pediatrician.A sweet smell is common in...