Articles tagged with: fast food
We asked nutritionists Jane Reagan, MEd, RD to review some kids’ menu items from popular chain restaurants for us. It’s not pretty. Most kids’ menu items, she concludes, are very high in fat. She wants to see restaurants include more vegetables in the meals, rather than offering them as optional side choices.
APPLEBEE’S
Kids’ Chicken Fingers
Calories: 640
Total Fat: 33 g
Sodium: 1,320 mg
Carbohydrate: 62…
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“Fat children eat better diets than their thinner classmates,” read a recent headline in the online edition of the UK’s The Telegraph, citing a study in Norway. Does this latest research suggesting that a lack of exercise, rather than a junk food diet, may be to blame for obesity? In other words, if you are feeding your kids – for the most part – healthy foods…
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Eating the best-tasting cherry tomato ever got now thirteen year old Sadie Hope-Gund curious. Why did this tomato taste so much better than most of the stuff people eat in New York City, where she lives? Her quest to find out eventually led her and best friend Safiyah Riddle to make the movie “What’s On Your Plate?” Sadie’s mom, award-winning filmmaker Catherine Gund, directed the witty…
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There is an awful lot of information out there about the foods we eat. I know it is easy to get confused by all the information we receive about fat, sodium, fiber and all that other stuff. If adults are confused, explaining it to a child is going to be even more confusing. Luckily, I was asked to write a children’s book that would make these areas of nutrition more…
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Does your child crave sweet or salty? The answer might be more than just a personal taste preference.
Your kid’s salt cravings can indicate low blood pressure or adrenal function, or over-hydration (too much water intake). Kid athletes who sweat but don’t replace the lost sodium might crave salt because of their low blood sodium levels after playing sports.
What if your kid just likes his food saltier? Maybe he…
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No wonder your (usually) sweet honey child acts like a junkie on withdrawal when you drive by her favorite fast food restaurant. A new study (on rats, mind you) suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin. Eating too much junk food gradually overloads the “pleasure centers” in the brain, just like cocaine would. Eventually, your child needs more and more…
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