Teach Children About Healthy
Nutrition is no different than any other topic, and we have to teach children about healthy. Would you allow your 9-year old to opt out of her least favorite subjects in school—say, math and science? Just quit, not participate at all from kindergarten to high school graduation? Why would we knowingly allow [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Parenting Skills for Young Children
My next week of blogging will be about one of my favorite topics, possibly the #1 question I am asked—and the one I care about most. How do I get my kids to eat right? That is, parenting skills for young children when it comes to food and nutrition. These blogs are [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Some schools do care about nutrition
My friend Lisa just moved out of state and wrote me an email about her kids’ new school that included this: ”We’re strongly encouraged to send snacks for our kids, but it must be raw fruit or vegetables, no dips; all bread products are whole wheat, and in the lunchroom, there’s always a fresh fruit [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Childhood Obesity in Schools
I love this lady, Yvonne Sanders-Butler, principal of Browns Mill Elementary School in Georgia. When she was hospitalized ten years ago with high blood pressure, she promised God she would “lead a healthier life and educate others.” She’s setting the standard to stop childhood obesity in schools. She improved her diet and started [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Throw Away Your Television
With more than one-third of America’s children overweight, we have TV to thank (more importantly, our choice to indulge in it). Throw away your television (or at least leave it mostly off) for two reasons. One, kids are burning fewer calories because they aren’t exercising while they watch hours of TV. Most parents [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Childhood Obesity Facts
Before I go on to list some sobering childhood obesity facts, here’s the one that hits me hardest: Yale University found that overweight children are routinely teased and bullied by peers and even teachers and parents. That’s now 35 percent of all kids, half of whom qualify as obese. The Yale study [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Avoiding Childhood Obesity
I’ve been reviewing recent data on the phenomenon that threatens to bankrupt us all and damage our quality of life: the well known childhood obesity epidemic. My web site intends to be nurturing and positive about diet, toward avoiding childhood obesity. But occasionally, I think a good dose of reality (call it fear [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Freebie composting (also, Bob dies)
We’ve had a beautiful Indian summer in Utah, and the last couple of weeks, I’ve come home from my Saturday run past my neighbors bagging their leaves. I asked them to drop the bags off at my house instead of the dump, and we layered them in our compost boxes as the “brown” layer [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Sugar is the nice girl’s cocaine
I’ve said before that sugar is more addictive than cocaine (I’m not making this up—earlier research has documented this phenomenon). A new study in today’s paper, conducted in France, has been presented to the annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. Rats offered a choice between cocaine and sugar chose [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Nutrition activity for kids
Need a nutrition activity for kids? Have them watch my new three-minute green smoothie demo on YouTube. If you like it, give me five stars so I can bump out all those weird and totally inferior green smoothie demos. I wonder how fast YOU could do it if you weren’t talking the [...]
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