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Family Nutrition Blog

 

Our blog ‘Nourishing Thoughts’ keeps families informed on current nutrition news, fun kid-friendly nutrition tips to encourage healthy food, nutrition, and exercise choices, nutrition articles, and interactive tools for parents. Our healthy nutrition blog is for parents, teachers, and everyone who is interested in kids' health and nutrition.

Often, we will have weekly themes about healthy habits.  The topic is discussed on Mondays, we follow up with a fun informative infographic that provides key facts about the topic, finishing up on Friday with some great materials and resources to use to bring that topic to home, school or wherever you are working with children to promote healthier habits! Enjoy.

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About Maggie

I am a nurse and a mother of two.  I am also the founder of Nourish Interactive. I am very concerned about the health and well being of our children.  I started the Nourishing Thoughts Blog so that I could help parents keep up on the latest trends in children’s nutrition and exercise. 

I know that much like reading and writing is the foundation for learning, nutrition is the foundation for healthy children.  But with so many new studies, products and trends constantly being reported it is hard to keep up.  I just want to make it a little easier for parents by doing some of the legwork and providing you with up to date information.

 
Mar 07, 2012

Shape Your Plate the MyPlate Way!

I am excited to share with you this fun challenge from our partners at Healthy Kids Challenge. In recognition of National Nutrition Month, Healthy Kids Challenge is inviting after school programs, youth leaders and families to take the Sha...
Mar 05, 2012

National Nutrition Month and National Breakfast Week Come Together to Get Your Childs Plate In Shape

Happy National Nutrition Month everyone! The theme this year is "Get Your Plate In Shape!" with all the healthy foods of the food groups. This is an exciting month with a great focus on healthy foods. Schools, organizations and healthcar...
Mar 02, 2012

Get Your Plate In Shape - National Nutrition Month

Happy National Nutrition Month®! It is finally here! Thank you to everyone who has been supporting us as we all worked together to help kids eat healthier! We had over 1200 people participate and reached over 45000 people with our messa...
Feb 29, 2012

Video games may not be the solution for fighting childhood obesity

New study out of Houston gives disappointing results about the use of active video games and childhood obesity.
Feb 27, 2012

Get Kids Eating A Healthy Breakfast - National Nutrition Month Goal

This is our last week to March to National Nutrition Month and we are officially there! Thank you to everyone who has been supporting us. Here is some facts: We have over 1,200 people who have joined us in helping children add on...
Feb 24, 2012

Influence of toys and the purchase of happy meals

Interesting facts infographic with information about McDonalds.
Feb 22, 2012

Free Coloring Book Kicks Off Potato Month

This week we want to help kids eat more fruits and vegetables. This month is Potato Lover Month and a vegetable that lots of kids love. Potatoes have gotten a bad rap because of the french fries and potato chips. But in reality, when you ...
Feb 20, 2012

Help Kids Eat More Fruits And Vegetables

This week we are kicking off our March to National Nutrition Month with a focus on fruits and vegetables. We have reached over 450,000 people since we starting marching (figuratively!) to National Nutrition Month and we could not have done it wi...
Feb 15, 2012

Stirring Up Health Cooking Contest Teaches Children About Healthy Foods

Don't miss your chance to enter the Stirring Up Health Recipe for Middle School. Cooking is such a great way for kids to learn about healthy foods while creating meals and trying new recipes. Here is the information about this contest from o...
Feb 13, 2012

New Video from Chipotle Sustainable Food- Raising Awareness of Farming, Farm to Fork- Social Good Nutrition Education

See the new video from Chipotle that premiered during the Grammy Awards- we really enjoyed the video creatively promoting sustainable farming, farm to fork, and eating healthy food! It has music, Willy Nelson singing a Cold Play song. You won't wan...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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