Articles tagged with: healthy foods for kids
Sometimes, parents simply have to give in. A perfect example: It’s one of those nights when they absolutely want their favorite kids meal for dinner. Let them have chicken nuggets. It’s okay. And with these tips from ZisBoomBah nutritionist Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD, you can feed kids their favorite kids meals — from frozen pizza to ramen noodles — and still provide the extra nutrients you want them…
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Finding the perfect go-to snack for kids can be a bigger challenge than putting a healthy dinner on the table. Why? You want the snack to be quick, easy and something your child loves — every single time.
We sat down with ZisBoomBah nutritionist Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD to talk about better-for-you options to try for your children. Lisa actually recommends not to attempts to…
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“Just because they are thin, doesn’t mean they have the right to eat junk,” said one mom who we interviewed as part of our exclusive series on children with low bodyweight. “I think it’s important for them to eat healthy.” In fact, this particular mom had been left a little irked, to say the least, by her pediatrician’s advice to feed her skinny twins Happy Meals to “fatten them…
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At ZisBoomBah.com, we’ve been writing a lot lately about featuring tasty vegetarian meals your whole family will love. We honestly have no agenda to try and convert everyone into vegetarians—I’d go nuts without my mu shu pork, but rather to offer recipes and techniques that will help your family feel comfortable about the occasional meal without meat. MarkBittman of the NewYorkTimes coined…
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Earlier this week, I made a salad for my 6-year-old daughter with wild rice, nuts, pear, dried cranberries, agave nectar and a heap of cinnamon (a top favorite flavor around our house). For full disclosure, I simply needed to use up the rice and that lonely pear in my fruit basket. What’s more, I proudly looked upon my concoction as incredibly nutritious. Unfortunately, it also looked a little bit too…
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Cottage cheese used to remind me of the Eighties; the time when my mother was on a weight loss diet published in a German women’s magazine. There always was lots of cottage cheese involved. And they still say, cottage cheese is a dieter’s best friend. But cottage cheese mixed with cocoa powder and a fake zero-calorie sweetener as a healthier substitute for chocolate pudding on Sundays, really mom? It…
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Encouraging kids in the preteen set to “eat your salad” will most likely result in some heavy sighs, a few eye rolls and even the occasional slightly audible “ewww.” If you are lucky, a few reluctant nibbles at a carrot or two may be made, but more likely you will have to avert your eyes as your otherwise intelligent and loving offspring drown their greens under heavy mounds of ranch…
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After two weeks of fun-filled holiday parties and get-togethers brimming with rich foods and copious amounts of confections and eggnog, it feels like its time to scale back and create lighter, healthier meals for yourself and your family.
Here in Colorado, after a very snowy and chilly December, we have been given a warm reprieve for us to get outside and enjoy the sun as the 6-foot snowdrifts melt away.…
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This is the second part of our two-part series on high-fructose syrup from Education.com. The two experts quotes here are Susan Levin, Director of Nutrition Education for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), and Dawn Swidorski, Public Outreach Director for the Defeat Diabetes Foundation.
(Read part 1: Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Making Kids Fat?)
6 steps you can take now to get high-fructose
Is foraging for mushrooms a family-friendly activity?
Phil Carpenter, the head of the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz, says it is. Carpenter, who grew up in a mushroom-picking family, has been hunting for fungi ever since he was a kid. And, it’s a passion he eventually shared with his own children.
“We hunted for morels every spring since I began to walk and it’s still going…
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