Here’s a little article on the importance of breakfast and how to simply “build” a breakfast that gets you and the kids off to a healthier start.
Enjoy… and pass it along!
http://www.articlesengine.com/Article/Building-a-Healthy-Breakfast-for-Kids/428252/1
Wow! My smarty-pants friend guessed it right away!! ; )
The following ingredients make up the recipe for Traditional Candy Corn:
* Sugar,
* Corn Syrup,
* Confectioner’s Glaze,
* Natural and Artificial Flavors,
* Salt,
* Artificial Colors, (FDC Yellow 6 Lake, Red #40, Red 40 Lake, Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Blue 1 Lake, Blue #1, Yellow 5 Lake),
* Egg Whites,
* [...]
Amidst all the fun and festivities of Halloween comes some stress. No, not the stress of finding Halloween costumes. Stress in the form of nutritional toxicity! Each year, we are inundated with Halloween candy and junk galore as our wee ones are given every Halloween “treat” imaginable.
Back in the day, I can remember receiving chocolate [...]
I think I’ve made myself pretty clear in the years I’ve been writing as “Dr. Mom”… getting healthier isn’t about being perfect; it’s about making BETTER choices, more often.
We’re not perfect in this little familia. Not by a long shot.
However, I have become quite skilled in the area of making common choices healthier. Nothing I [...]
Here’s an example of a VERY simple and quick breakfast for kids that meets the requirements for health right off the start: fresh fiber, protein and healthy fats.
These are the innate genetic requirements for nutritional health.
Also, there’s none of the things in this little meal that tend to move us AWAY from optimal health: things [...]
Since many of you have asked… these are the nutritional supplements (”vitamins”) I give our kids and this is how I get them to take them.
At this point, no arm wrestling is required… they love the “shooters” concept. I suppose that could be problematic when they’re in college… but I’m runnin’ with it for now!
(We [...]
This morning, my kids were begging for oatmeal so I broke out the steel cut oats.
This is such a quick, simple, healthy and delicious breakfast for kids… I love it. Yes, it has grains, obviously! But, I can offset some of the traditionally negative effects of grains by making a few upgrades:
1) It’s not quick-cook, [...]
The answer to the last “mystery” food/beverage is Capri Sun.
At least in this neck-of-the-woods, this has become the drink of choice for many kids’ sporting events and parties. Makes me sad, since high fructose corn syrup is the second ingredient, after water.
I don’t mean to pick on Capri Sun, per say. There are certainly many [...]
What food/beverage consists of the following ingredients:
Water, Corn Syrup High Fructose, Pear(s) Juice From Concentrate, Citric Acid, Strawberry Juice from Concentrate, Pectin, Flavoring Natural
(Other flavors of this food/beverage would contain a different variety of fruit juice concentrates.)
Whatcha’ think it is?
Check out the following blurb from www.FoodFacts.com regarding the term “natural flavor” on packaging:
The term natural [...]
You probably guessed today’s mystery “food” pretty easily – macaroni and cheese (the leading brand, who shall remain nameless).
Seems relatively harmless when you read the ingredients with two glaring exceptions, and a few not-so-glaring, sneaky ones.
First, the artificial colors are toxic.
Second, where IS the health-building property of this food? I don’t see the 4 Golden [...]
What common North American “staple” consists of the following ingredients:
whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, salt, calcium carbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, contains less than 2% of citric acid, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, milk, calcium phosphate, yellow 5, yellow 6, cheese culture, enzymes, AND (spoiler warning!) enriched macaroni product (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic [...]
A couple of nights ago I had the pleasure of giving my “Simple Nutrition for Maximized Living” presentation at a local gymnastics and cheer training center.
The coaches had expressed interest in this subject for quite a long time now. They clearly recongnize that when their athletes are fueling up with the proper nutrition, they are [...]
On our way home from our seminar over the weekend, we stopped at one of our all-time favorite restaurants for a late lunch – early dinner. It’s The Arbor Brewing Company in Ann Arbor.
Every single time I’m there I find myself asking the same questions: “Why on earth don’t we have restaurants with menu options [...]
At a Nutritional & Neurology seminar I attended over the weekend, I was reminded of a study I had read awhile back. I thought you might find it interesting as well.
From the New England Journal of Medicine: Children (girls) who consume French fries as little as one time per week between the ages of 3-5 [...]
Yesterday was our last day at the seminar (and hotel). Our kids had really been wanting to go out for breakfast the entire time we were there… I’m not sure why, other than the hotel had their breakfast buffet advertised all over the place! Marketing works like a charm on kids!
I’m not a big fan [...]
We’re out of town for a seminar this weekend and we brought the kids along. We’ve been “tag-teaming” our parental duties with them while the other parent sits in on the classes. It’s all working out just fine.
You may recall from a post a few days ago that I spent some time packing up quite [...]
Here’s another recently published article I thought you might be interested in. Again, the topic is the increasingly common lack of nutrition in kids’ meals and snacks.
I somewhat jokingly call this trend the “Brown Food Diet”… or, more accurately the “White, Tan, Yellow, Beige and Brown Diet!”
Here’s the link to the article:
http://www.articlesengine.com/Article/Kids–Nutrition—Where-Has-All-The-Color-Gone-/407561/1
Let me know what [...]
Here’s a little article I recently wrote about school lunches and what we’re feeding our kids. Really, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a “school” lunch or lunch at the kitchen table. The point is, are we providing our kids with the basic building blocks for health?
Beware… I was somewhat “irked” when I wrote this! : [...]
Just thought I’d share how our family applies my mantra of “Getting healthier isn’t about being perfect… it’s about making better choices more often.”
Creating health through nutrition requires making more pure and sufficient choices, while decreasing the toxic and deficient ones.
Sometimes, I just feel like having a tasty toxin. So there.
Last night was one of [...]
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