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Childhood Nutrition

Put Away That Blender -- Feed Your Baby Real Solids

Dr. Veronica Anderson | Posted 04.24.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fast Food, Childhood Nutrition, Baby-Led-Weaning, Childhood Obesity, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News
Dr. Veronica Anderson

There is no reason why modern technological advances need to get in the way of what our prehistoric ancestors have been doing all along. Let your baby choose the foods that nature intended for them to eat in the first place.

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Dinner Is Now On The Menu In Nearly 200 California Schools

| Sue Frey | Posted 04.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, California Department of Education, School Suppers, School Lunches, Free and Reduced Price Lunches, Free School Lunches, Childhood Nutrition, San Diego Unified School District, School Dinners, Video, School Meals, After School Programs, Student Health, California Schools, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, School Lunch, Student Nutrition, Home News

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. You've heard about free school lunches and breakfasts, but how about school suppers...

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Why New Jersey Parents Are Superior

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 04.09.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Meryl Streep, Diet and Nutrition, New York, Childhood Nutrition, New Jersey, Bruce Springstein, French Moms, French-Moms-Superior, New Jersey Parents, Parenting, Parents, Comedy News
Sybil Adelman Sage

While the French are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety, New Jersey moms have a secret of their own.

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Getting Kids To Eat Vegetables At School: Are Pictures The Answer?

Posted 04.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Journal of the American Medical Association, Video, Minnesota Schools, School Meals, Healthy School Lunches, Richfield Minnesota, School Lunches, Vegetables in Schools, Minnesota Elementary School, Healthy School Meals, Childhood Nutrition, School Lunch, Child Nutrition, Student Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Home News

Getting young children to eat their servings of fruits and veggies, particularly in school, has been a long and hard struggle for parents, schools and...

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How I Became a Calorie Girl

Lindsay Pyfer | Posted 03.24.2012 | Parents
Read More: Raising Children, Childhood Nutrition, Children's Health, Personal Health, Parenting Advice, Body Image, Parents News
Lindsay Pyfer

I was six the day my mother called me into the bedroom she shared with my stepfather. My stepfather gently pinched the flesh near my waist between his thumb and forefinger. He said, "See this?" I shouldn't be able to pinch so much here."

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School Vending Machines Don't Make Tweens Gain Weight, Study Says

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 01.18.2012 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Video, Junk Food in Schools, Child Diet, School Vending Machines, Vending Machines in School, Childhood Nutrition, Schools, Health Food in Schools, Child Obesity, Public School Nutrition, Home News

The explosion of obesity and unhealthy eating among children in recent years is deadly serious. It's already increased the prevalence of things like d...

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FoodCorps Volunteers Teach Healthy Eating To At-Risk Young Kids (VIDEO)

Posted 01.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: National School Lunch Program, Healthy Eating, School Lunches, School Nutrition, Foodcorps, Childhood Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Foodcorps Volunteer, Video, Healthy Living News

More than 17 percent of all children between the ages of two and 19 are clinically obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

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Giving Back and Getting Balanced

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 02.28.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Philanthropy, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Partnership for a Healthier America, Personal Health, Common Threads, Work-Life Balance, Balance, Diabetes, Childhood Nutrition, UnitedHealth Group, Healthcare, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

If we do not change our habits by 2020, children today will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. It would be the first time that this has happened in 200 years.

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District May Ease Junk Food Ban Amid Profit Loss

Posted 12.14.2011 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Vending Machine in Schools, School Lunches, Childhood Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Video, Seattle Junk Food Ban, Vending Machines, Junk Food Ban, School Junk Food Ban, School Vending, School Food, School Vending Machines, Student Health, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, Seattle School Food, Student Nutrition, Seattle Schools, Home News

The Seattle School District is considering rewriting a policy enacted in 2004 that removed junk food from public schools, citing the ban's huge cut to...

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Despite Congress Backtrack, Schools Move Ahead With Healthy Meals

| Sue Frey | Posted 01.29.2012 | Home
Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Hunger Free Kids Act, Video, Healthy School Lunch Program, Healthy, Healthy School Lunches, School Lunches, Childhood Nutrition, Lunch Wars, School Lunch, Los Angeles Schools, Childhood Obesity, Home News

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. A week after Congress backtracked on some key components of landmark school nutriti...

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Congress Says Pizza and French Fries Are Vegetables!

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 01.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Farm Bill, Food, Childhood Nutrition, 2012 Farm Bill, Nutrition, Earl Blumenauer, Politics News
Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Like many of you, when I heard that Congress decided that pizza is a vegetable, I thought it had to be a headline from The Onion.

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Oh No! The Farm Bill Stole My Baby! (video)

Nicole Betancourt | Posted 01.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Farm Bill, 2012 Farm Bill, Sarah Schenck, Parentearth, parentearth.com, Childhood Nutrition, The Farm Bill, Children's Health, Childhood Obesity, Video, Home News
Nicole Betancourt

Do you ever wonder why highly processed foods are so profitable for the food industry? The Farm Bill makes their primary ingredients cheaper, and fa...

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Schools Bring Breakfast Out Of The Cafeteria And Into The Classroom

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Joanna Lin | Posted 12.27.2011 | Home
Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Video, Compton Unified School District, School Means, School Nutrition, California Food Policy Advocates, Classroom Breakfast, Childhood Nutrition, Federal Income Standards, California School Breakfasts, California Students, School Breakfasts, Home News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. Every morning in Sarah McKerr's third-grade class at Foster Elementary School in Compton, st...

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Senate Votes To Save Potatoes In Schools

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.19.2011 | Home
Read More: Education News, Center for Science in the Public Interest, School Lunches, Potatoes in School, Childhood Nutrition, Starchy Foods, School Breakfasts, Susan Collins, Ucla Center for Human Nutrition, School Lunch Funding, Potatoes, Health, Nutrition, US Senate, School Lunch Potatoes, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, Usda, US Department of Agriculture, Video, Home News

WASHINGTON -- The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on schoo...

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Why So Many Toddlers Have Bad Eating Habits

Dina R. Rose | Posted 12.19.2011 | Parents
Read More: Toddlers, Childhood Nutrition, Parenting, Children's Health, Nutrition, Parenting Advice, Childhood Obesity, Toddlers Nutrition, Toddlers Eating, Toddlers Eating Habits, Parents Toddlers, Parents News
Dina R. Rose

Are you teaching your tots bad eating habits? Chances are, the answer is yes. Here are three common mistakes parents make that teach their toddlers bad habits, and three fixes that you can implement today.

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Food Court: Winners And Losers Of The Week

Food52 | Posted 12.10.2011 | Home
Read More: Food News, Book Publishing, Small Business, Food Stamps, Cookbooks, food52, Food Policy, Cookbook Publishing, Childhood Nutrition, School Lunch, Alton Brown, Hunger, Publishing, Nutrition, Food Insecurity, Starbucks, Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Home News
Food52

In which Shelly Peppel and Fran Brennan, the editors of Food52 News, pass judgement on the week's top food news.   • Winner: The man...

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Mysterious Blogger Who Exposed Bad School Lunches Revealed

Posted 12.05.2011 | Home
Read More: Sarah Wu, School Meals, Video, Cafeteria Food, Nutrition, School Lunches, School Nutrition, Fed Up With Lunch, School Food, Childhood Nutrition, School Cafeterias, Schools, School Lunch, Student Nutrition, School Cafeteria Food, Good Morning America, Home News

It all started one day at the beginning of last year when she forgot to pack her lunch. Mrs. Q -- a pseudonym that this elementary school teacher u...

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Eco Etiquette: My Friend Feeds Her Toddler Junk Food

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 11.27.2011 | Green
Read More: Processed Food, Food Movement, Adhd, Artificial Food Dye, Green Advice, Dr. Greene, Junk Food Subsidies, Eco Etiquette, Childhood Obesity, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Green Living, Diabetes, Childhood Nutrition, Farm Subsidies, Junk Food, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. My good friend and I have...

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Why This Could Be A Scene Of The Past

AP | By DAVID SHARP | Posted 11.26.2011 | Home
Read More: Ucla Center for Human Nutrition, School Lunch Funding, Potatoes, Nutrition, Health, School Lunches, School Lunch Potatoes, Potatoes in School, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, Childhood Nutrition, Usda, US Department of Agriculture, Starchy Foods, School Breakfasts, Home News

PORTLAND, Maine -- Sen. Susan Collins, who hails from Maine's potato country and picked potatoes as a girl, is working to restore some respect for the...

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Join Me in the Huddle to Fight Hunger

Joe Montana | Posted 06.18.2012 | Impact
Read More: Social Impact, Poverty, US Poverty, Domestic Hunger, Hunger in America, Childhood Nutrition, Recession, Kraft, Hunger, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, Nutrition, Food Politics, Bblog-Adcouncil, Food Insecurity, Feeding America, Joe Montana, Child Hunger, Fight Hunger, Huddle for Hunger, Impact, Impact Sports, Impact News
Joe Montana

One out of every 6 Americans doesn't know where their next meal is going to come from. It is unconscionable that anyone should be facing food insecurity in this land of plenty, which is why all of us should do our part to ensure no one has to go hungry again.

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Back To School: How To Raise Healthier, Smarter, Fitter Children

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.10.2011 | Parents
Read More: Mark Hyman MD, Public Schools, Childhood Nutrition, Ultrawellness, Nutrition, School Lunches, Children, Parents News
Mark Hyman, MD

What can you do to help your child and what can we do as a nation to raise a smarter, fitter, happier generation of children? It is a two-part solution.

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Watching the Ice Melt in the Kool-Aid: Or, How I Learned to Eat My Vegetables

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 10.17.2011 | Parents
Read More: Lima Beans, Family Dinner, Kool Aid, Parenting, Vegetables, Childhood Nutrition, Family Dinners, Parents News
Linnie Frank Bailey

Sometimes I wish I could talk to the parents I had as a kid. One question I would ask them is this: what was the point of making a thirsty child eat their vegetables before drinking that watery Kool-Aid you served with dinner?

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Obesity Problem Is About Personal Responsibility and Access

Michelle Bernard | Posted 10.03.2011 | Home
Read More: Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating Habits, Childhood Nutrition, Child Nutrition, Nutrition, Food Industry, Home News
Michelle Bernard

The food and advertising industry is often cast as the callous, corporate villain for a problem that, in truth, is really about personal responsibility and access to healthy and affordable foods.

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The Elephant in the Kitchen

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 09.18.2011 | Home
Read More: Childhood Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Family Dinner, The Family Dinner, Family Dinners, Home News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

By teaching children the love, joy, knowledge and skills of cooking, they become empowered to make healthy choices and take control of their own physical, emotional and spiritual well-being for the rest of their lives.

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A Canadian Breakthrough: Fortifying Lives Through Nutrition

Marc Van Ameringen | Posted 08.06.2011 | Impact
Read More: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Micro-Nutrients, Childhood Nutrition, Anemia, Malnutrition, Iron Deficiency, Sprinkles, Impact News
Marc Van Ameringen

Almost one in three people -- 2 billion globally -- suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies impacting child survival, growth, development, learning capacity and earning potential.

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