Articles tagged with: eating habits
Ending the old year with some reflection and starting the next day fresh has fueled many a resolution for improvement. There is a reason both of these steps are considered key aspects of successful behavior change. We are much more successful in making desired changes—whether they be increasing our level of activity or improving our diets for better nutrition and balance—when we first acknowledge what we are doing right.
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I have never been a drinker. I’m not a gambler. In fact, I can’t seem to find an anonymous support group to help with my own personal struggles. If one existed, every meeting would probably start with me admitting, “Hi. I’m Kate and I’m a nutritionally challenged mom.”
Oh, the shame in that confession! If only it were possible to look around the room to see other sympathetic nutritionally challenged…
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Back to School feels a lot like January – a fresh start, a chance to rethink your ways, the motivation to improve. Total tabula rasa. Neither you nor your kids have goofed anything up yet…. ahh, doesn’t it feel good? Use this renewed positive spirit to form new healthy habits for the school year that lies ahead, still untainted; or to reinstate some bygone good habits you had neglected towards…
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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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“There is something about a shared meal — not some holiday blowout, not once in a while but regularly, reliably – that anchors a family even on nights when the food is fast and the talk cheap and everyone has someplace else they’d rather be. And on those evenings when the mood is right and the family lingers, caught up in an idea or an argument explored in a shared safe place
This is a follow-up to “Are Your Kids Telling The Truth About What They Eat?“
When my daughter was about 4 years old I discovered the Eating-Honesty Bind.
I had sweetened the pot of a boring morning spent running errands by promising my daughter that I would take her for an ice cream when we were done…
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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 third 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.
When we flippantly suggested that letting kids snacks throughout the day rather than having defined meals is a sure way to make them fat, one of our readers commented that studies show eating small meals throughout the day…
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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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We are happily sharing this guest post with you today, enjoy!
Written by Kia Robertson, mom and creator of the Today I Ate a Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents encourage their kids to eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day.
