Beverages

Spice Up Your Coffee: Preservative-Free Homemade Coffee Creamer and More! For some, a hot cup of morning coffee is the best part of waking up. It gets even better when delicious creamers are added to the mix. They are perfect for savoring sea...

Looking to get healthier? Start with your daily beverage. New Beverages Hitting the Market New and improved ingredients and beverages are becoming hot on the health and wellness market, and that means that you can feel your absolute best with gre...

A new study* has been released that tell us we need more positive healthy marketing messages about healthy beverages. Researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found parents are not really sure what makes a healthy beverage. Pa...

This infographic was shared with me and I thought I would share it with you. I love infographics because they are a more visually interesting way to communicate some key information and facts. You might be surprised by the amount of sugar in so...

New study is showing that increasing the cost of sugary drinks may actually be decreasing sales. A study conducted by Harvard University studied the impact of increasing the cost of sugary drinks by one cent per ounce. Sugary drinks were dri...

Michelle Obama had expanded her mission to promote healthy choices to children. We know that she has focused on getting kids more active and then choosing more fruits and vegetables. Now she is taking a stand on beverages. She has started a new...

Make a pledge to help kids replace one sugary drink with water. You know most kids don't get enough water. Water is so important and necessary for children (really all of us) because it: hydrates the body, since most of our body (cel...

June is National Dairy Month! The theme this year is Doing Good With Dairy with a focus on the local farmers and community. The National Dairy Council is having a photo challenge each day this week. If you would like to participate, you c...

In my last post, "Kids choose less soda in school but still have sugary alternatives," I talked about the sugary drinks that children are still drinking in school. Kids don't really think about what all the extra calories really means to their ...

A new study just published in the Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that recent changes to laws in the schools are making a difference with children's sugary beverage consumption. The study found that only one in four high school students h...