Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Balancing Act Show 1149

Toilet training is an important milestone in a child’s development and can be one of the greatest challenges parents face. Not all children are ready at the same age, and they often respond differently to various training methods. In this segment we’ll showcase two exciting new products that use the power of positive reinforcement to help potty train your child faster and easier. We’ll hear what a mother of three has to say about the product after she tests it with her son, and speak with a pediatrician about its effectiveness.

Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Seth Wescott tells us what it’s like to snowboard down a steep mountain racing at breakneck speeds and why “Cross” is one the most exciting extreme sports. He’ll also remind people that winter’s chill shouldn’t discourage folks from getting out and having fun in the snow. As America’s most adventuresome athlete, Seth also discusses how we can have the best winter of our lives by heading out into the great wide open and how to stick to our New Year’s resolutions and make smart choices for the New Year.

The Go Green 21.0 Foundation was founded to foster and promote green education initiatives around the world with the help of schools, and like minded organizations and individuals wanting to make a difference.

In today's perfection-driven society, teens are increasingly developing heart-breaking obsessions about the way they look... Fitting into a size zero drives kids to develop life threatening behaviors that not only hurt themselves but their families... In the book Distorted by Lorri and Taryn Benson a mother and daughter unravel the truth, lies and realities of an eating disorder...

One of Time Magazine’s 10 best medical breakthroughs of 2007, Veridex’s GeneSearch™ Breast Lymph Node Assay can evaluate your lymph nodes more thoroughly for cancer cells than more commonly performed test procedures used during surgery. Given that more than 40,000 women in the U.S. die annually from breast cancer, the GeneSearch™ BLN Assay is the first intra-operative & gene-based test approved for use in the U.S. to detect the spread of breast cancer into the lymph nodes, and in this segment, our host discusses this test and what patients should know after they have been diagnosed with breast cancer when with Dr. Peter Blumencranz – one of the first doctors to use the test clinically after it became available on the market.

If you have an ailing loved one, make sure you take care of their financial, legal, and long-term planning issues. Try to involve them in decision-making, if they are still capable of providing input, and consider their wishes related to future care and end-of-life issues. Don’t procrastinate. If you need to, seek the help of a qualified financial or estate planner.