Showing 44 posts tagged nutrition
Fresh Picks: Pumpkin
Chock-full of important nutrients, we’ve posted yummy ways to serve pumpkin to your children.
Many parents swear they’ll keep their kids away from sugar—for a few years at least. But once playdates and birthday parties begin, sweet treats pop up everywhere.
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New Rules Could All But Suspend Starches From Public Schools
Potatoes, peas, corn and other veggies could nearly disappear from cafeterias under proposed federal nutrition guidelines…
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Parenting 104: Week 23: Fruit Of Our Earth
by: Heidi Green
The White House has its kitchen garden, and this year the Green House does too!
We started strawberry plants and berry bushes several years ago, inspired by my father-in-law’s backyard full of red raspberries, black raspberries, blackberries, golden berries, and hybrid berries. In fact, some of our plants got their start in his garden, more than a hundred miles away. Ben learned to tell the ripe berries from those not-yet-ready-to-eat almost as soon as he could walk. Over the years, Ben has helped Katie and Sam learn the difference too.
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Fresh Picks: Broccoli
by: Lia Wiedemann
Thanks to a powerful combination of fiber, vitamins, and minerals, broccoli is known as a cruciferous vegetable, a label given to certain cancer-fighting veggies. Other cruciferous vegetables include: cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, chard, kale, mustard greens, rutabagas, and turnips.
Find out what else makes broccoli special, tips for serving to kids, and a must-try recipe: http://bit.ly/chopbroc
Fresh Picks: Peas
by: Lia Wiedemann
Peas are part of the legume family—plants that produce pods that split open when ripe and contain edible seeds, known as beans. Like most legumes, peas are low in calories, high in protein, and full of important nutrients.
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Should Parents Lose Custody of Extremely Obese Kids?
by: By MIKAELA CONLEY from ABCNEWS.com
Parents, in some cases, should lose custody of their severely obese children, argued Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, in an opinion piece that ran in the Journal of the American Medical Association Wednesday.
“State intervention may serve the best interests of many children with life-threatening obesity, comprising the only realistic way to control harmful behaviors,” Ludwig said in the editorial, which he co-wrote with Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard’s School of Public Health.
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Industries lobby against voluntary nutrition guidelines for food marketed to kids.
The food and advertising industries have launched a multi-pronged campaign to squash government efforts to create voluntary nutritional guidelines for foods marketed to children.
Calling themselves the Sensible Food Policy Coalition, the nation’s biggest foodmakers, fast-food chains and media companies, including Viacom and Time Warner, are trying to derail standards proposed by four federal agencies. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has also lent its lobbying muscle to the effort.
The guidelines are designed to encourage foodmakers to reduce salt, added sugars and fats in foods and drinks targeted to children. If their products did not meet the standards, foodmakers following the guidelines would refrain from advertising them to children
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Fresh Picks: Spinach
by: Lia Wiedemann
Everyone knows how passionate Popeye was about this power-packed vegetable. Too bad he chose to eat it from a can! Fresh spinach is a much better option, followed by frozen.
Should I buy organic? How do store and serve it? Need a good Recipe? Read More: http://bit.ly/fpspin
