Posted in Articles, Child Nutrition, Exercise, Guest Post on Sep 19th, 2012
Tweet Please enjoy this guest post from Tara Spenser. It can be hard to find the time to exercise when you have kids — especially young children. From the moment they get up in the morning until the moment they go to bed in the evening, they demand so much of your attention that they [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, Weekly Nutrition Tips on Sep 11th, 2012
Tweet This week I provide the next five “no-fail tips” to help you raise a healthy eater: 5. To ensure variety in your child’s diet, offer at least 2 different foods groups at each snack and at least 3 different food groups at each meal. Don’t worry if some days your child eats no fruit [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition on Sep 4th, 2012
Tweet Raising a healthy eater can be a tricky process. It’s a balancing act of many aspects: providing healthy foods, encouraging new foods, allowing independence, teaching regulation of “junk” foods, allowing for a child’s individual food preferences, allowing for a child’s natural growth pattern and daily appetite changes, peer pressure, and teaching a child how [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition, Weekly Nutrition Tips on Jul 17th, 2012
Tweet Food is great. I love to eat. It’s very sweet and tasty. I love it so because it’s good. We don’t eat sweets, but only apples and fruits and vegetables. And good things and healthy things like that. (“You really don’t eat sweets?,” I asked.) You can eat sweets but not a lot. As [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition, Weekly Nutrition Tips on Jul 10th, 2012
Tweet Here’s a startling statistic: children who drink 1 cup (8 fl oz) of a sugary drink every day, have a 60% chance of becoming obese. Yikes! Even though this statistic is based on children, I don’t see why it wouldn’t apply to adults as well. Let’s discuss what counts as a sugary drink, why [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition, Heart Health, Weekly Nutrition Tips, Weight Management on Jul 3rd, 2012
Tweet What do you think of when you hear “convenience foods”? High in sodium, fat, and calories? It doesn’t have to be that way, though. With the thousands of products at the store to choose from, you can surely find some healthy, tasty, and convenient foods. Here’s a short list: Cheese sticks Boiled [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition on Jun 12th, 2012
Tweet The empty candy wrappers stuffed in the corner of my daughter’s room stared at me. I immediately felt concerned. I wasn’t worried that she was eating candy, I was worried that she felt she had to sneak and hide. I’m trying hard to raise my children with a normal relationship with food, or be “intentional eaters,” [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition on Aug 24th, 2011
Tweet It seems like family mealtime has become old-fashioned for some people. It’s time to bring it back! Did you know that family meals are linked to children’s weight and nutrition intake? Research shows that families that frequently eat meals together have children that are at healthier weights, eat more nutritiously, and are less likely [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition on Aug 3rd, 2011
Tweet Whether it’s your spouse, your whining children, your growling stomach, or the food displays at the grocery store, temptation always surrounds you! Giving into impulse buys at the store are rarely a good idea. I know we’ve all done it. We see a display of a tasty new food or try a sample and [...]
Posted in Child Nutrition, General Nutrition on Jun 30th, 2011
Tweet A friend recently requested some new ideas for meals and snacks for her preschooler. In response to her request, I thought I’d share my ideas with you, as I’m sure she is not the only one who would like a few suggestions. When it comes to feeding our children, sometimes we tend to overcomplicate [...]
