Help the kids get active is a great healthy goal for kids and families.Getting kids to be active is more than enrolling them in sports. Sporting activities are great but sometimes the focus of sport is winning and losing and not necessarily the need t...
If your child is overweight and you are worried about how to best help them lose weight in a healthy way, I recommend seeing your pediatrician and having a meeting set with the pediatric dietitian.But there are also a great deal of good, credible resou...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released a guide of age appropriate healthy resolutions for kids.This is great because sometimes it is hard to know what is a good goal for a younger child. We want goals to be healthy and achievable. And ...
This is that time of year where everyone is making New year resolutions and for many, losing weight will be their resolution.When we tend to focus on a "losing weight" goal, it usually means some extreme restrictive diet that makes us feel like we are ...
In my last blog, I shared with you a new report grading how well childcare facilities provided healthy eating and physical activity for children under their care. The report also discussed the "Model Child Care Regulation for Healthy Eating and Physic...
In my last blog, I shared with you some interesting information about the current school meal programs that are serving millions of kids across America.Here is an opportunity to take a few minutes and write your congressman about the Child Nutrition Ac...
We know Michelle Obama has been promoting healthy eating and being active to kids but it looks like President Obama has joined in.In a new public service announcement, President Obama is seen playing football promoting physical fitness activity as part...
I ran across this catchy little tune and video about nutrition and thought I would share it.I love it because this is exactly what we believe is so important, making nutrition fun. If we make it fun and help kids form a positive association with fruit...
There she goes again! Showing us by example how fun it is to be active and healthy.Our First Lady, Michelle Obama dawns a hula hoop and shows the kids she's still got the moves! Then double dutch jump rope, obstacle course barefootI just love her. T...
It is the day after Thanksgiving! There is always so much focus on foods during this time of the year that I don't want to forget about activity. That is the other half of the equation and so important for kids, (really for all of us!)Use the fact th...
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