healthy eating for children

Your Kid’s Fat and It’s Probably Your Fault

April 19, 2013
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We all know that there is an increase in childhood obesity. It’s at an all time high. We have some idea where this is coming from; an over abundance of unhealthy fast food options in supersizes, and a high tech society that no longer moves but sits sedentary, all the while expanding its ever growing [...]

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Drinking Too Much Tea Can Have Serious Health Implications

April 8, 2013
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A very interesting case made its way into the New England Medical Journal. Did you know that by consuming too much tea, you could be damaging your health? First we are told that Diet Coke is bad for our health and now the tea. What’s next? Wine? It was recently reported that a 47-year-old Detroit, [...]

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Bébé Day by Day

February 27, 2013
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Journalist and mom, Pamela Druckerman who shared the story of her own young family’s life in France in her book Bringing up Bébé has written a new book,  Bébé Day by Day. In Bringing up Bébé she investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, well-mannered children and mostly calm parents. Sounds like heaven, n’est-ce [...]

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Do You Make Your Kid Clean His Plate?

October 4, 2012
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There has been an ongoing controversy for years about whether or not you should make you child clean his plate. Some parents feel that it is a matter of principle – it’s not good to waste food. Others feel that the rule means that children learn to overeat. I can understand why parents used to [...]

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Cartoon Characters Influence Kids’ Food Choices – They Needed a Study for This?

September 26, 2012
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I have to laugh and shake my head at some of the “new” information researchers are releasing. The irritating thing is that information, which is sometimes common sense, is heavily funded by the government. Let’s not go there right now, ok? One of the biggest head-shakers lately has been the release of a study that [...]

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How to Keep Your Kid from Trading His School Lunch for a Twinkie

September 10, 2012
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If you take the time to create a healthy lunch for your child, you want them to be the ones to eat it – you sure don’t want them trading all of that nutritious food for a God-knows-how-old snack cake in cellophane. The thing is that our kids sometimes don’t share our opinions on what [...]

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Leave These Out of Your Kids’ Lunch Bags

September 6, 2012
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There are some things that you just need to leave out of the lunchbox. They may be unhealthy, they may be expensive, or they may be both. Here are some things you may want to omit: The small, packaged snack lunches that are made up of crackers, processed meat, and cheese are high in sodium [...]

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My Teen Wants to Be Vegetarian

August 16, 2012
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Teenagers seem to go out of their way to be different from their parents and do nearly everything possible to cause stress and worry. It’s almost like it’s their job or something.  Sometimes it is short lived – like pink hair. Sometimes it is a complete lifestyle change – like when your teen wants to [...]

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Quick and Healthy – No Bake Granola Bars Recipe

July 3, 2012
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Granola bars make delicious snacks and they are relatively healthy. The thing is that you can make them for so much less money than you would spend at the store – and they aren’t hard to do at all. Do you need more convincing? Those commercial bars contain a variety of additives that you probably don’t want [...]

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