Confession: While I've been known to poke fun at Gwyneth Paltrow now and again (come on, it's like shooting fish(mongers) in a barrel!), I find myself hesitating to criticize her latest cookbook craze/crazy cookbook. It's All Good is all about how getting rid of gluten, sugar, meat, eggs and dairy has revolutionized her health -- not to mention the health of her unwittingly-along-for-the-ride family. Most of the flack Paltrow is fielding has to do with her admission that occasionally, yes, her kids get really hungry. And while, as a mom, I'm not so sure what I think about whether elimination diets are appropriate for kids, I have to admit ... I lived the gluten/dairy/egg/meat-free way for a while myself, and I felt ... mostly ... all good.

I wasn't trying to be cool or anything -- my doctor at the time suggested the diet as a remedy for what he suspected was celiac disease, a digestive disorder triggered by gluten intolerance.

Anyone who's watched Here Comes Honey Boo Boo knows that they aren't the healthiest stars around. From their butter soaked dinners to crunchy cheese balls, meal times are anything but balanced. Turns out, all those family favorites are not just wreaking havoc on their waistlines. Recently hospitalized with pancreatitis, Sugar Bear risks getting sick again if he doesn't ditch the fried foods, according to his doctors.

What is the fatty-food loving father to do? The compassionate woman mama June is, she reportedly said the family isn't going to change their menu for Sugar Bear. He'll just have to fend for himself the nights they feast on deep-fried goodies. Poor guy. Despite the temptation, he needs to make a change if he wants a long life and that means more than just diet fixes. Here are 10 things he can do now to ensure he sees Honey Boo Boo grow up.

Hey, I'm the first person to admit my complete and total addiction to coffee. A day without coffee is like ... a day without prolonged periods of wakefulness, in my case. Meaning: I depend on the stuff to function. Or at least I thought I did, until I heard Mike and Trina's story. Because this St. Petersburg, Florida couple really does depend on coffee to function, to a shocking degree. No joke.

I know what you're thinking: How much coffee can these people possibly drink? But that's just it -- neither Mike nor Trina actually drinks coffee at all. They believe that drinking coffee is "bad for their health." So they give themselves (brace yourself) coffee enemas. At least 100 coffee enemas per month. Each.

There are times when I think I have done everything right diet-wise, yet I still feel big and bloated. Have you ever had one of those days? Incredibly frustrating, isn't it? It makes me feel like giving up and just grabbing a slice of pizza. But I've figured out what I am doing wrong. I have been wrecking my waistline with foods that are diet-friendly, but actually can leave you feeling swollen. Maybe you are too. Here are 6 healthy foods that give you belly bloat.

What surprising foods have left you bloated?

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I guess you CAN have too much of a good thing, particularly if that good thing is antibiotics. I mean, at first everybody was like, hooray! Take that, scarlet fever! And antibiotics were a really good thing, cause they got rid of all kinds of nasty stuff that used to kill people. Then, sadly, we went so overboard on the stuff for so many years, antibiotics are now causing problems instead of just fixing them: The terrifyingly named "superbugs," for example, like the new bionic gonorrhea, and now ... obesity?

According to some microbiologists, antibiotics are contributing to the obesity epidemic by "killing off gut bacteria that would otherwise help digest food." A recent study found that infants who were given antibiotics before the age of 6 months "consistently added more body mass years later." And cattle farmers figured out long ago that a steady diet of antibiotics packs the pounds on cows. (They plump ... before you cook 'em!)

Oh, and guess what? It gets worse!

Resist the urge to pick up the hand-sanitizer when I tell you this: Scientists recently made a germ map of the human body, and guess what? If you happen to be fairly healthy, you're probably carrying about 10,000 species of microbes around right now. If you happen to be under the weather, you're probably just one big microbe. (Just kidding.) Ewwwww!

Not really. Even though we tend to associate the word bacteria with other, scarier words like "flesh-eating," bacteria can also latch right on to nicer words -- like "beneficial." In fact, most of those 10,000 species aren't making you sick, they're making sure you don't get sick. In quite the site-specific fashion, too: While individual people might have different bacteria, everybody's personal bacteria does the same job in the same places.

It's kind of like this ...

We've been thinking a lot about how to get our kids to eat more vegetables and, in the process, get more of what Michael Pollan calls "food" down our gullets in place of the cast-off chicken nuggets and pizza rinds we currently eat. Here are some changes we're going to be instituting around Gadget Dad central.

Leave it to Suzanne Somers to take on a taboo, cringe-worthy topic and make it seriously fascinating! In today's episode of Suzanne Somers Breaking Through on the CafeMom Studios YouTube channel, Suzanne did a one-on-one with Brenda Watson, C.N.C., who Suzanne considers her resident digestive care expert ... and yes, she's also a "poop" pro!

Suzanne points out that moms don't flinch one bit when discussing their kiddos' poop, but when it comes to our own ... well, that's a whole different story. But it shouldn't be! In fact, we're seriously underestimating what our waste can tell us about our well-being.