Articles tagged with: childhood obesity
(Read part 2: What Parents Can Do to Limit High-Fructose Corn Syrup)
High-fructose corn syrup: you know it’s not exactly the best thing for your kids, but it’s just a little sugar, right? Well, not all sugars are created equal. According to new research from Princeton, high-fructose corn syrup is not just another sugar;
Worried about what your child is served in the lunchroom? You are not alone. We speak to hundreds, if not thousands of parents throughout the year who are really concerned about their kids’ nutrition at school. To boot, just watching Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is a wakeup call that has the nation’s parents on edge, wondering, ‘what can I do to save my child from having to eat this garbage?’…
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Family dynamics have a huge impact on a child’s weight. Things like whether you are having family meals together, whether you make physical activity a family priority and where you choose to eat out together very much play a role in shaping your child’s health and forming habits for life.
More often than not, it’s obese parents who
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This is the ninth article in our 10-part series that drills down on each individual point in 10 Ways to Make Your Kid Fat. One last one to come, so stay tuned...
Fiber is very important for a healthy body, yet many children are not eating anywhere near enough fiber-rich foods. Neither are adults, by the way…
What is fiber and what does it do?
Fiber is the indigestible portion…
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Most parents teach their kids to lie about food and eating. Not intentionally, of course.
No one wakes up one morning and says, “Right, it’s time to turn Lucy into a liar.” But our cultural obsession with nutrition puts enormous pressure on parents to get the right nutrients into their kids, and that pressure makes most parents resort to a host of tactics that don’t…
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This is the seventh article in our 10-part series that drills down on each individual point in 10 Ways to Make Your Kid Fat. Stay tuned for the rest.
As parents, we think about how to get a child to eat healthy basically every time we feed them. Chances are, it’s why you’re reading this blog right now. And dang it, the words “finish your broccoli and you can have…
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The body mass index—BMI for short—measures the ratio of height and weight. It’s the most common way to define childhood obesity.
Your pediatrician uses BMI for children as a screening tool to determine your child’s weight status categories: obese, overweight, healthy weight or underweight. BMI is a pretty good indicator for body fatness for most kids, although it doesn’t measure fat directly. That’s why experts point out that BMI is…
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This is the second article in our 10-part series that drills down on each individual point in 10 Ways to Make Your Kid Fat. Stay tuned for more.
The upward trend of superabundant portion sizes in restaurants and fast food chains is making its way into our homes and onto our plates. Decade by decade, we’ve been losing sight of what once used to be sensible portion sizes.…
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…while keeping sane. Every. Single. Morning.
This is the first article in our 10-part series that drills down on each individual point in 10 Ways to Make Your Kid Fat. Stay tuned for more.
Your mom really was right when she said: You can’t learn on an empty stomach, child. A healthy kids’ breakfast each morning is essential for a successful…
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- Don’t feed your kids breakfast. It’s hard enough to get them out the door in the morning anyway. Geez, moms need a break too. Just make sure you put a candy bar in their pocket, in case their blood sugar drops a little later on.
- Pay no attention to portion sizes. In fact, adult portions are completely appropriate. Don’t worry about a child’s stomach only being the size
