Articles tagged with: overeating
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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From our sponsor The Children’s Hospital
Most children are not obese, but fears about the obesity “epidemic” have increased with good reason. According to Renee Porter, obesity clinical nurse coordinator at The Children’s Hospital, portion sizes have nearly tripled in the last 20 to 30 years, kids often drink too many sugar-sweetened beverages, recess and physical education have drastically decreased…
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If you read a lot online about kids and eating, you know that nearly every parenting website and mommy food blogger is talking about picky eating. We are too. Strategies to get reluctant kids to eat a variety of foods—plenty of vegetables in particular —is a very popular parenting topic among parents and experts these days. It’s more than understandable if your automatically think, ”yep, I’ve a picky eater too”…
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It’s hard to think of the holidays as a time to teach your kids to eat right, but that depends entirely on what your definition of eating right is.
If you’re a normal parent, the kind whose goal is to keep a lid on the sweets and treats, the kind who makes it her mission to sneak as much healthy stuff as possible into her kids before they…
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Thanksgiving is a special time to spend with friends and family, but the celebrations often include too much food and treats that aren’t always healthy. With childhood obesity on the rise in the U.S., it’s important that we teach our children the importance of eating well, even during the holidays.
Portion control can help to keep the fat and calorie intake down at big holiday meals…
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This is part 2 of Dr. Dina Rose’s elaboration on when to feed kids. In part 1, she explains what parents should think about before deciding between feeding on schedule and feeding on demand – or a hybrid between the two, as well as what should be your goal.
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Below I’ve listed some pros and cons for each strategy to help you choose. But let me point…
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We often talk about healthy eating habits here. But what can and should parents really expect from their children? Let’s do a reality check.
As our house nutritionist Lisa Lanzano says, one cookie is not going to undo the good nutrition kids get regularly. Neither will one trip to McDonald’s. Maybe what we are really saying here is that we are giving you permission to give yourself a…
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If you can find an excuse not to work out faster than you can find your gym shoes, you know how hard it is to get (and stay) in the habit of exercising regularly. If you are rushing out the door in the mornings with an empty stomach, only to crave a scone with your latte by 10 am, you know how easy it is to give in to your…
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