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First off, a couple of blogs about minerals. The bottomline: to stay healthy, humans need minerals (and vitamins). The question is, where to get said minerals? Food alone is no longer a good source for minerals - environmental factors have depleted the mineral content in most soil. Mineral supplements therefore, are necessary. Nature Moms suggests supplementing with pills and blogs about four Must Have Minerals (iron, chromium, magnesium and zinc). Not the pill-popping type? MomSquawk reports on Coca-Cola and Pepsi’s newest products: carbonated drinks fortified with vitamins and minerals.

In other news, Raisingkids reports that the High Court in England has made a landmark ruling in favor of employees on maternity leave. While laws protecting women on maternity leave already exist in the UK, the High Court’s ruling helps clarify an employer’s responsibilities toward employees on maternity leave;

The DriveCam is a new device that monitors your teenager’s driving habits. Marketed as a “teen safety” device, this camera - which is mounted on your car’s dashboard - tapes video of your teen while he/she is driving. Videos are then screened and scored for risk by the service provider and then streamed to parents in a weekly report. Stroller Derby discusses the pros and cons of the DriveCam, while commenters muse over the damper the gadget might put on a teenager’s budding “backseat” romance; and

Blogging Baby reports on a possible link between frozen foods and Crohn’s disease. A study out of Australia has found that almost half of all newly diagnosed cases of Crohn’s disease in that country have in common a certain bacteria which thrives in freezing temperatures. While the study does not come out and say that the bacteria found in frozen foods is an environmental factor which might cause Crohn’s disease, “some form of association” has not been ruled out.

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