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Category Archives: Children’s Nutrition
Create a Healthy Kid’s Lunch Box
Julie’s Comments: Here are some great tips for helping your kids eat healthy and develop good eating habits that will benefit them all their lives. Please share your views by leaving a Comment below.
Healthy School Lunches: Is Your Child Eating a Balanced Diet?
Julie’s Comments: With childhood obesity at nearly epidemic levels, healthy eating for our kids is more important than ever. Here are some great tips on how to help our children develop healthy eating habits.
Healthy School Lunch Ideas
Julie’s Comments: It’s hard to keep coming up with ideas for the kids’ lunch (or even for your own lunch). Check these out! If you use turkey or other meat for sandwiches I suggest a nitrite/nitrate free brand like Hormel … Continue reading
More on Sugar and Health…
Julie’s Comments: Here’s more evidence from the Harvard Health Blog that too much sugar can seriously damage our health. It may be linked to liver disease. It’s important to limit it as part of our healthy eating plans. I posted … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Nutrition, Foods to Avoid, General
Tagged healthy eating, HFCS, sugar and health
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Do Children Need to Eat Breakfast?
Julie’s Comments: Breakfast is important for us all, and especially for children. They may insist they don’t want anything, but they really need to eat. If you’re running out of ideas for things to serve try peanut butter or cheese … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Nutrition
Tagged breakfast for kids, childrens nutrition, kids nutrition
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Family Meal Planning – Vegetables for the Whole Family
Julie’s Comments: Building nutritional eating habits for your children can be a challenge! Here are some practical and entertaining tips from busy Moms on getting the kids to eat vegetables. Good luck!
High Energy Snacks – Keeping Up Your Energy Regardless of Age
Julie’s Comments: Here are some healthy snack foods that will keep up your energy and give you good nutrition. These are so much better than the processed snack foods we tend to fall back on when we’re busy, skip meals … Continue reading
Fighting Childhood Obesity – School Lunch Trays Are Being Tracked
Julie’s Comments: Here is some food for thought on the alarming increase in childhood obesity. Please share your views by clicking Comments below. A project funded by the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) is photographing student lunch trays before and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Nutrition, Weight and Fitness
Tagged childhood obesity, student lunch trays
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Make Your Summertime Cook-Out Fun and Healthful
Julie’s Comments: Here are some ideas for making your next summer party healthful and fun. Get your guests moving and enjoying themselves, while serving a healthy menu! It is easy to do! I have some fun ideas that could help … Continue reading
5 Ways to Add Vegetable and Fruits to Your Child’s Diet
Julie’s Comments: These tips from Cindy Hamilton are really helpful and they’ll work us adults, too. Go Veggies! We all have heard the “5 A Day” slogan from the United States Department of Agriculture for years now. But, did you … Continue reading