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Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series, join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

Learn what supplements you should be taking by Clarinda over at A Jewel In The Making in this third post of Raising Healthy Families series.

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You may be thinking that you eat pretty healthy and you don’t need these supplements or if you don’t eat too healthy what would be a great way to help your body become healthy (besides actually eating healthier) so what supplements does she recommend and why should you take them? Included are her quality brand recommendations.

Head on over to her blog to learn more in Do You Take These Supplements? If Not, You Should!

Note: This series is designed as a fun and informative compilation to help you and your family thrive. Each post is the opinion of that particular blogger, not necessarily mine or Positively Real Media’s.

Is Your Mattress Toxic?

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Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series, join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

We spend an average of eight hours a night sleeping. That’s fifty-six hours per week, or about one third of your whole life. It’s even more for babies and children!

Logic would dictate that we would desire a healthy and toxin-free spot to rest our weary heads each night, but unfortunately that can be difficult to find.

Conventional mattresses (and even many labelled “organic” or “natural”) contain toxic flame-retardant chemicals that off-gas continuously. Since you are laying directly on it for eight hours every day, this is most definitely a problem. There are multiple links between the toxins found in our sleeping environments and many health issues that plague our society today, such as asthma, allergies, headaches, and SIDS, to name a few.

You may be wondering what can we do about it. Is it really so bad? What if I can’t afford an organic mattress? Our family recently took steps to make our sleeping environments safer.

Click over to Red and Honey to read more!