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Childhood Diabetes

How to Parent an Adolescent With Diabetes

Riva Greenberg | Posted 01.01.2012 | Healthy Living
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Riva Greenberg

Barbara Anderson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine. Her expertise is in helping families traverse the stages a child with diabetes will go through during adolescence.

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Shrinking Our Super-Sized Kids: Who's in Charge Here?

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Childhood-Nutrition, Children's Health, Childhood-Diabetes, Childcare, Healthy Diet, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Lifestyle, Gastric-Bypass, Lifestyle Changes, Healthy Living News
Ramon Resa, MD

Instead of allowing our children to explore and sample life in the "outside world," we keep them inside, feed them junk food, and use TV as a babysitter.

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Food, Inc. Inspires Moms to Cut the Crap

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Sarah Newman

Parents have had enough. They know their kids need nutritious, fresh ingredients that encourage healthy growth and fuel their minds instead of foods that fuel an obesity epidemic amongst kids.

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Food Fight At P.S. 9: Mother's Battle Against Junk Food Gets Extreme

New York Times | SUSAN DOMINUS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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MeMe Roth, a publicist and an Upper West Side mother of two, is getting really, really mad -- "and I do not mean angry," she clarified. "I mean mad, l...

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