Electric Breast Pumps

by E-NewsCast Team
August 31st, 2009

Although expensive, electric pumps are more efficient than hand or battery powered pumps. One advantage of with the electric pumps is that these pumps can be rented. Also, many of these pumps are well serviced by the manufacturers and are also often covered by health insurance.

Electric breast pumps can be used frequently. Both breasts can be pumped simultaneously by plugging the pump directly to an electric outlet. Most efficient breast pumps for initial usage as well as for maintaining the milk supply are the hospital-grade pumps that can be rented or purchased. However, professional quality breast pumps available only for purchase and cannot be rented.

Most work place lactation programs provide these pumps. However, the mother has to provide breast shields, tubing, and collection containers to store the breast milk.

There are several self-cycling electric pumps used for establishing milk supply currently on the market. These are generally used for

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Winning the “What If” Game

by E-NewsCast Team
August 31st, 2009

Pursuing your potential is not found in attempting to be like someone else or achieving what others have done, but by tapping into the untapped reservoir within yourself. Towards the end of George Bernard Shaw’s life, a reporter challenged him to play the “What If” game.

“Mr. Shaw,” he began, “you have been around some of the most famous people in the world. You are on a first name basis with royalty, world-renowned authors, artists, teachers and dignitaries from every part of this continent. If you had your life to live over and could be anybody you’ve ever known,” the reporter asked, “who would you want to be?

“I would choose,” replied Shaw “to be the man George Bernard Shaw could have been but never was.”

What would have been your answer? Who is it you want to be? What is it you want your life become? If you

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Marriage: Learning to Love

by E-NewsCast Team
August 31st, 2009

My daughter was recently in her school’s performance of Fiddler On The Roof. She was one of the daughters. If you don’t know the story, it focuses on the changing culture of marriage, from one where the marriage is arrainged by family and community to one based on mutual attraction.

In one of the songs, the main character asks his wife if she loves him. She replies that for 25 years, she has shared his bed, made his meals, tended his house, raised his children — so what kind of question is that? The point is that in their relationship, love wasn’t even a question or consideration. But after some back-and-forth, they decide that, indeed, they love each other.

This led me to think about what I know about marriage. And here is what I think about the question of love and marriage: we fall in love to get together, then spend

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A Mink Blanket Will Soften the Look of a Woo-Frame Occasional Chair

by E-NewsCast Team
August 30th, 2009

Occasional chairs, or as they there are sometimes called, exposed-wood chairs, are generally smaller than fully-upholstered chairs. Their frames are usually visible in a quality that is easy to discern even from a fair distance away. The usually have a solid feeling that results from the proper joining of frame parts, and they don’t twist when you lift one corner. Suitable for a dining room or any type of formal room, they have clean, smooth joints with a minimum of nails and screws. Since they have fewer parts that are able to the bent and shaped, they are generally much stronger. If you have an old, occasional chair that you simply can’t part with, there is always the option of using a fleece throw blanket or slipcovers instead of replacing the entire chair.

You’ll also find occasional chairs come in a variety of different carved

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Are You Nuts? Get Answers to 10 Important Nutty Questions

by E-NewsCast Team
August 30th, 2009

The beneficial impact of the Mediterranean diet on cardiovascular health is largely due to the liberal use of nuts. The November 2005 issue of National Geographic Magazine featured three people groups who are considered the healthiest people on earth, whose diets include nuts and grains.

Here are at least 10 questions you may want to consider before you go nuts:

What are some of the nutritional benefits from eating nuts, and they have enough protein? Nuts have as much or more protein content than meat and have no uric acid nor cholesterol. You won’t get vitamin C from nuts, but they are some of nature’s healthiest foods.

Is it better to have nuts salted or unsalted? In general, nuts taste better when roasted, however this process destroys up to 75% of the vitamin B1 content.

What’s wrong about having salted nuts? Adding salt to nuts is a really poor way of preserving them. In

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