Mum's Mail Pietermaritzburg and Midlands March 2019

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Issue 147 • Pietermaritzburg & Midlands • March 2019

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Meet the Cover Star Our cover star this month is Chloe Hempson adding and generally making a fun mess,” from Pietermaritzburg. Her mom, Claudia, says Claudia. is a foundation phase teacher and her dad, Mark, is a provincial economist.

“Being Chloe’s mom and dad has been a dream come true for us. She was a fertility Chloe is two years and four months old, baby – Dr Coetzee at Umhlanga Fertility and is a happy, easy going girl. She’s a very Clinic helped with this miracle.” independent, loving little toddler. She is growing up fully bilingual as her mom speaks Claudia suffers from a very rare Auto Afrikaans to her and her dad English.

Immune Disease called Myasthenia Gravis.

“It has a huge impact on our family but we Chloe loves her school and her favourite make it work. Every day is a blessing with book at the moment is What the Ladybird her. We both adore our little doll! Looking at Heard. “Chloe has always enjoyed her food, this little human growing up gives us hope… she puts a caterpillar to shame,” laughs her never take anything for granted,” she says. mom. She also loves dancing and music. “Two of our family friends will be running Chloe also models for Katkin&co bespoke the comrades this year to raise awareness online baby/toddler clothing range. and funds for Myasthenia Gravis and rare diseases research. We need to create “Family time is special to us. We make it awareness, we need a cure!” concludes priority. We eat together as a family every Claudia. For more info visit the Facebook night. We enjoy church, markets and nature page @rarediseasessa. outings together. We love cooking together and Chloe has started joining in now, mixing, Written by Sarah Mackintosh.

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Meet our gorgeous Cover Star, find out about our 6th annual PMB Ladies Breakfast, enter to WIN tickets to Monster Jam and find heating options for your swimming pool.

Healthy Life/Beautiful Life

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Enter to WIN one of six amazing Vaculice Electronic Lice Combs for easy removal of lice, plus read about World Salt Awareness Week and the mental health benefits of exercise.

Kids’ Life

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Read about the importance of sending your child to swimming lessons, find a sweet recipe and try our fun science experiments.

The Mum’s Mail Team

Editor: Victoria Arthur • editor@mumsmail.com • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 5) Operations Director: Andrew Arthur • andrew@mumsmail.com • 031 - 573 1731 Sub-Editor: Sarah Mackintosh • sarah@mumsmail.com • 072 384 9553 • Enquiries: Natalie Wilcox • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 1) Advertising Sales: Bev Delew • bev@mumsmail.com • 071 276 0926, Anisha Singh • anisha@mumsmail.com • 083 710 9485 Designer: Wendy Offer Model: Chloe Hempson • Photographer: Kate Martens Photography • www.katemartens.co.za DISCLAIMER: Neither the Publisher, Printer or Editor can be held responsible for damages or consequences of any omissions or errors, as every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of the information in Mum’s Mail. We do not guarantee the performance or quality of service of any of the advertisers in this magazine. No part of Mum’s Mail magazine may be reproduced without the written consent of the Editor.

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The 6th Annual Mum’s Mail PMB Ladies Breakfast The 6th Annual Mum’s Mail PMB Ladies Breakfast in support of The Sunflower Fund is fast approaching. The theme this year is the Fifties - think Grease, jukeboxes and swing dresses. This fun event is taking place on Friday 12 April 2019 at The Victoria Country Club in Pietermaritzburg from 8.30am to 11am.

Tickets cost R320 per person or R3 200 for a table of ten and includes a two-course breakfast, decadent individual desserts

by Chateau Gateaux, a B.O.N Natural Oils gift per lady, fabulous goodie bags, guest speakers, surprise treats and loads of exciting prize giveaways. Guests can also look forward to a fun photo booth, pamper station and numerous retail therapy pop-up shops. A prize will be awarded to the bestdressed guest exemplifying the Fifties era.

Booking is essential as numbers are limited to 220 exclusive guests. To book tickets or expose your brand through prize or goodie bag item sponsorship, please contact Daniella Geldenhuys on 031 573 1731 or e-mail daniella@mumsmail.com.

Funds raised from the event will enable The Sunflower Fund to create awareness as well as educate and recruit more blood stem cell donors. This is fundamental in offering the hope of life to patients suffering from lifethreatening blood diseases like leukaemia who are in need of a blood stem cell transplant from a matching donor.

For more information on The Sunflower Fund, please call toll free 0800 12 10 82 or visit www.sunflowerfund.org.za.

Monster Jam Thunders into SA for the First Time Ever!

American-based Feld Entertainment and leading local promoter, Showtime Management, in association with SuperSport and regional radio media partner East Coast Radio are bringing monster truck juggernaut Monster Jam® to South Africa for the first time ever, debuting at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban on Saturday 20 April. Unexpected, unscripted and unforgettable, Monster Jam is revved up family entertainment for fans who crave bigger, faster and louder experiences.

Jaw-dropping displays by the famous largerthan-life four-meter tall Monster Jam trucks, driven by world-class athletes leave families on the edge of their seats. Monster Jam is a family-friendly event that appeals to the young and young at heart, as well as lovers of motor and adventure sports and will be sure to have hearts racing. Monster Jam is a huge day out for all the family, kicking off with the world-famous Pit Party. Before the show, fans have the opportunity to meet the Monster www.mumsmail.com

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Jam superstars, get their autographs and take pictures with the trucks. This unequalled access allows fans to get amongst the Monster Jam action. The Pit Party is from 1pm to 3:30pm with final entry at 3pm.

Take advantage of the special discounted savings on family tickets, valid for bookings of four, five or six tickets. Tickets are only available through Computicket on 0861 915 8000, or visit www.computicket.com or your nearest Computicket service centre.

For more information visit www.monsterjam.com WIN! WIN! WIN! Mum’s Mail has two sets of family entrance only tickets (four per set) to give away (valued at R1 280 per set). Visit www.mumsmail.com to enter. (Tickets are for Saturday, 20 April 2019, 6pm.)

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Everyday Life/Healthy Life

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Healthy Life

#EatLessSalt this World Salt Awareness Week

The annual World Salt Awareness Week campaign helps raise public awareness of the damaging effect of too much salt to our health. The international campaign has been running for 11 years, each year with a different theme. This year it runs from 4 to 11 March.

from salt already present in processed, packaged food - such as bread, breakfast cereal or ready meals - or salt in restaurant food, cafeteria food and other eateries.

While we may know that salt is bad for our health, if the salt is already in our food we need help to #EatLessSalt!

The annual campaign is a chance to shine It is unacceptable that populations worldwide a light on the hidden salt in our favourite are burdened with unnecessary deaths. It is food products and unacceptable that the encouraging those next generation face a who don’t want future of preventable their food, and their health conditions. It children’s food, laden is unacceptable that with unnecessary salt a simple solution has to take action. You are not been actioned by also encouraged to policy makers. It’s time add less salt to your for ACTION. food while cooking or when at the table.

• Governments must prioritise the health Each year more than of their nations and 15 countries get involved in the campaign. commit to stronger action on salt.

It’s time for ACTION on salt For too long we’ve seen too little ACTION on salt. We know that no country is on track to achieve a 30% reduction in salt intake by 2025 and no country has reached the World Health Organisation’s recommended intake of less than 5g per day. We also know that too much salt in our diet raises blood pressure, which puts us at increased risk of stroke and heart disease. Stroke and heart disease are two of the biggest causes of death and disability worldwide. The UK Department of Health estimates that for every 1g reduction in daily salt intake, 7,000 deaths could be prevented and 4,000 of those deaths would occur before the age of 70.

• The food industry must commit to further salt reduction work, with guidance from policy makers.

• Health charities and non-governmental organisations must take ACTION – keep talking about the amount of salt in our food and the need for healthier environments to enable healthier choices.

• Individuals must take ACTION - write to companies to ask for less salt in food, write to government representatives to demand a strong salt reduction strategy, share personal salt reduction strategies on social media, encourage friends and family members to add less salt to food and to choose the lower In some countries the main source of salt is salt option. salt added by the individual but this doesn’t just come from the salt shaker: salty sauces Visit www.worldactiononsalt.com such as soy sauce are big contributors of to find out how you can get involved salt to diets worldwide. In many countries in #SaltAwarenessWeek 2019. though, up to 80% of the salt we eat comes www.mumsmail.com

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Healthy Life/Beautiful Life

The Mental Health Benefits of Exercise proven to stimulate serotonin, your natural feel-good neurotransmitter.

The mental health benefits of becoming more physically active are becoming more and more prevalent. In this article, Kieran Alger explores the mental health benefits of exercise.

How do you feel after a workout?

Even when you’re purple faced and desperate for a lie-down, you feel pretty pleased with yourself for giving it a go, right?

Once the initial breathlessness subsides after a workout, it’s common to feel like you have more energy and those troublesome problems might not seem quite so big as before. While they might seem intangible these benefits are as real as – and arguably more important than – the results you see around your waistline.

“A prescription of exercise can help you have a healthy mind,” says GP Dr Paul Stillman, from Media Medics. “Exercise stimulates positive endorphins, clears your head and lifts your mood. I think we’ll see more and more people prescribed exercise as a moodbooster.”

Can exercise help you handle stress?

Sure thing. A team of neurologists at Stanford Medical School, US, studied brain scans and found regular exercisers have more grey matter in the prefrontal cortex, which governs stress-management.

Does exercise help anxiety?

“Running gives me the headspace to focus on what I’m feeling when my anxiety gets really bad,” says Cardiff student Seren PritchardBland, 21, who ran the London Marathon for the mental health charity Heads Together. “I get panic attacks when I’m stressed out, but I find simply getting out of the house with my trainers on makes me feel like I’ve achieved something positive. Running is therapeutic – it’s so much healthier than being alone at home with thoughts spinning around my head.”

Why is exercise such a mood-booster?

“Exercise is fantastic for releasing tension, reducing stress and giving joy,” says Hayley Jarvis, programme manager for sport at the mental health charity Mind. “Being active is one of the best things you can do to help yourself bounce back in times of adversity.

Getting out of your head and into your body can actually improve your ability to think clearly and break up your racing thoughts.”

Find your mood-boosting workout If the thought of hauling yourself out of bed to jump around feels as impossible as climbing Everest, start slow. You can always stop if you’re not feeling it, but all it takes is a few minutes of low-intensity exercise – even just walking – to trigger the release of painrelieving endorphins. Every stretch releases tension and every movement makes oxygen flow a little faster.

Ultimately, the key is to find a workout you enjoy, because then you’ll want to keep doing it. After exercise, take a moment to notice how your mood has lifted. The bright, calm satisfaction you get after your workout But when we feel down, everything can feel will keep you coming back for more. You’ll overwhelming. Time to crawl into a hole? get hooked on the feel-good benefits of In fact, the more stressed out you feel, the exercise, not just the physical results. more you need to look after yourself – and a workout can be the happiest medicine.

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Kids’ Life

Learn to Swim the Fun Way!

Swimming is a life skill. Us South Africans are friend with a pool, or to the dam or sea with surrounded by water – rivers, dams, seas family. and pools. Sadly, drowning is still one of the major causes of death amongst toddlers.

Odette says that this summer has seen record high temperatures, which has made This NEED NOT BE the statistic! it fun for families to spend many hours in home or public pools. The school system If we introduce water to our toddlers in a fun will stop swimming soon when they start way – splashing in puddles, splashing in their their winter sports programme, but Odette bath or shower, blowing bubbles etc. – from encourages parents to enrol their toddlers a very young age we can work together to and young children in extra mural swim build a water-safe, water-wise and water- lessons to extend their learning opportunity. enthusiastic country!

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Remove the saucepan from the heat, and whisk in the peanut butter until melted.

Transfer to a medium bowl, and let the pudding cool to room temperature, stirring frequently to prevent a skin from forming, about 45 minutes. Cut the bananas into small chunks. Put an even tablespoon of pudding in the bottom of a 5-ounce paper cup; top with 2 cookies and then 1 tablespoon of bananas. Repeat with another layer of pudding, cookies and bananas. Top with a final layer of pudding. Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make 8 pudding cups. Cover the cups with plastic wrap, and refrigerate long enough for the cookies to soften, at least 6 hours - preferably overnight.

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Kids’ Life

Science Experiments

Set Up a Potion Lab

You will need: A flat surface such as a table, plastic containers, plastic cloth or oilcloth, funnel, jugs, pipette or tweezers (optional), spoons for measuring and stirring, water, food colouring, bicarbonate of soda, vinegar, labels and a pen.

Dissolving Ink

Science Question: Can you make permanent ink dissolve? A solvent can break the bond of a permanent marker, freeing the ink to spread and burst.

Supplies needed: • Spray bottle If you’re a fan of Harry Potter, or simply want • 70% rubbing alcohol to channel your inner mad scientist, why not • Aluminium foil or cardboard to line the set up your very own potions lab outside? inside of the shirt • White T-shirt First, set up your work surface: an outdoor • Coloured permanent markers table covered in waterproof cloth works brilliantly. Next, you’ll need to find lots of The Experiment: different containers. As mad scientists tend Fill the spray bottle with rubbing alcohol. Cut to verge on the side of clumsy, it’s probably your foil and put it inside the shirt to keep safest to choose plastic vessels. It’s also your marker from bleeding through. Colour helpful to have a funnel, jugs and even the your shirt with the markers and spray the old pipette or tweezers on hand - after all, shirt with alcohol. dragon’s blood and giant’s snot call for some The outcome: very careful handling!

Watch as the colours morph into a colourful Food colouring mixed with water will give explosion! your creations an interesting look, and for added fizz try adding a spoonful or two of Why it worked: bicarbonate of soda before splashing in a The alcohol acts as a solvent and dissolves little vinegar. Other possible ingredients the ink as it saturates the shirt causing the include stardust (glitter), rainbow essence ink to spread. (old poster paint), powdered unicorn bones (flour), statue’s tears (rice) or monster slime TIP: After your shirt is dry, wash it alone so (vegetable oil) - but always ask the grand the colours don’t bleed onto the rest of your high-keeper of the kitchen for permission laundry. first (AKA your mom or dad).

When you’ve made your potions, decant Variations: them into small containers and add a helpful • If you don’t have an old shirt to spare, label - e.g. ‘Shrinking Potion: not suitable for this same technique can be used on paper towels or coffee filters. elves or goblins.’

• Try hydrogen peroxide or water and see Just remember - DO NOT DRINK THE how the colours change (or don’t!).

POTIONS!! It won’t end well.

Did you know?

TIP: For added authenticity, try adding a Way back in the 12th century BC, the Chinese white coat, safety glasses and evil laugh used ink from squids to write and draw with.

(MWA HA HA). That should unnerve a few people!

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