Child Nutrition

How to Get Kids to Love Veggies -- The only vegetables six-year-old Heather eats are French fries and ketchup--and that's using the term "vegetable" loosely. What's alarming is that she's not alone. Today over 60 percent of children ages two to nine don't consume the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
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Healthy Eating Tips Aimed at Children -- If you stay on top of the news, you probably already know that obesity is the number one health problem and type II diabetes is becoming epidemic among US children.  Yet, many parents are baffled at how to get their children to eat more healthy foods.  Getting children to eat healthy isn't as complicated as it first appears.
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Are Our Drinks Making Us Fat? -- One of the big differences in diet between this generation and the one before it is the amount of soda and other sweetened drinks we consume. High calories soda can add hundreds of calories a day to our diet.
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How to Teach Good Eating Habits -- Every parent should be guided by the pyramid food classification when feeding their children. Parents should start feeding their babies the right food even before they can demand what they want to eat. The pyramid food guide shows that food that has plenty of fats, oil and sweets should be eaten sparingly.
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Fast Food Feeding -- It’s no secret that our generation has become a fast food society. If we don’t feel like cooking or have a long day at work, we order pizza or some other take out meal. Lunch hours don’t give us much time for nourishment. The choices are minimal when we have to choose a meal from a vending machine. We usually have options that are far from appetizing.
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Is Your Kid's School Lunch A Nutritional Time Bomb? -- It's back to school time, and all across the country millions of kids are experiencing their first day of school after a long, lazy summer. Unfortunately for many of America's children, few school supply lists address what may be the most important school supply of all: a healthy lunch.
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The New Food Pyramid: Another Attempt At Providing Easy Answers -- The Food Pyramid, first introduced to the US in 1992, just experienced a major overhaul. Why? Perhaps proper education about nutrition isn't as easy as picking out food from a colorful chart. Last month, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that childhood obesity was causing a retreat in average lifespan.
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Simple and Effective Ways to Deal with a Picky Eater -- Ideally, your child should love to eat the food that you prepare for them; but most of the times your child may do just the opposite. He or she may refuse to eat the food and end up throwing a tantrum hoping that mommy will say, "It's okay, if you don't like it, I will make something that you like". How should mothers handle such situation? Throwing the food is not an option as it only reinforces your child to be pickier with the food.
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A Healthy Breakfast for Your Child -- Breakfast is usually the time when you're busiest - what with packing your kids off to school, looking after the house and rushing to work too. Often moms give a ready-to-serve breakfast with sweet cereals and cereal bars which do not have much of a nutrition profile to boast of.
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Childhood Obesity: Dietary Influences -- Unhealthy dietary influences are a great factor in the growth of childhood obesity. Portion sizes of food and soft drinks served at fast food restaurants are somewhat at fault for this epidemic. Portion sizes have greatly expanded; McDonald's French fries were originally sold in two-ounce portions. Today's "super size" fries are nearly seven ounces. Eight ounces was the original size of a vending machine Coke; this has expanded to twenty ounces.
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