With families so busy these days it’s sometimes hard to make time for your health by exercising. How can you justify an hour at the gym away from your family when you haven’t seen them all day and dinner’s still up in the air? With parents working harder than ever, homework piling up [...]
Tags: dinner, exercise, family bonding, family fun, Nutrition, sleep, stress
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September marks several nutrition-related health observances and I would like to take this opportunity to touch on family nutrition. Specifically, the most common questions that parents ask regarding their children’s diet.
How much fruit and vegetables do children need?
We all know that our kids need fruit and veggies and we struggle everyday, trying to win the [...]
Tags: diet, fruit and vegetables, green checkmark, Nutrition, restrictions, smart choices
Posted in: Nutrition, Parenting
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Now that our son has begun to eat solid foods, I’d like to start making baby food for him myself. Not only is it more nutritious to make your own baby foods at home – especially with fresh, in season and organic produce– but it can also be less expensive. In our neighborhood grocery store, [...]
Tags: applesauce, baby food, do it yourself, How to, make baby food, Nutrition, organic
Posted in: Nutrition, Recipes
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As I was pondering all things pregnant this morning while gazing at my rapidly growing waistline, I wondered what my food cravings mean. Do cravings tell you something, or is there no real reason for them other than to annoy your husband when you demand that he get you fried chicken take out at 11pm?
When [...]
Tags: cravings, diet, Food, Nutrition, Pregnancy
Posted in: Pregnancy
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A recent study by an Australian researcher that suggest that children tend to make food choices following their parents’ example even at an early age – as early as 5 in fact. The study was conducted through the University of Southern Australia’s Centre for Nutritional Physiology and was entitled Parental Attitudes and Nutrition Knowledge.
The researcher [...]
Tags: children, eating, healthy food, Nutrition
Posted in: Nutrition, Parenting
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