Every parent wants their kids to eat healthy, but if your family isn’t used to home-cooked meals, the extra time and money can make it easy to put off. Fortunately, there are simple steps you can take to keep your kids healthy without overhauling your routine, or busting your budget. Here are a few of… Read more:
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Are you giving your child the nutrients they need? How to ensure optimum nutrition
You want your child to be happy and healthy. Children learn how and what to eat from you, and forming healthy habits during their early years promotes lifelong health. Your child needs proper nutrition for optimal growth and development and healthy eating in childhood can prevent serious health problems down the road, such as obesity,… Read more:
Hank D and the Bee: Exploding Eggs!
More on the Food Safety Inspection Cuts From WaPo’s WonkBlog: The Sequester: Absolutely everything you could possibly need to know, in one FAQ From ThinkProgress: Top Republican Blows Off Food Inspection Cuts Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow… Read more:
Red Bull or the vegetable? In The Matrix of a food war, this kid chooses his pill
“There’s a war going on inside, no man is safe from: DDTs, PCBs, every corner in the hood got a KFC or McD’s. It’s crack speed like RED Bull-ish they pulpit – so caffeine, Kit Kat like a click-clack holes in your genes Cuz everything at market ain’t all what it seems.” – Food Fight… Read more:
Fighting Obesity One Meal at a Time
As children are ever growing, appetites will fluctuate drastically. At times it seems like they might eat you out of house and home. The next day, they may have very little of an appetite. The trick to fighting obesity in a child is monitoring what they consume. Naturally, a child’s metabolism could be running at… Read more:
4 Simple Tips to Make You Healthier Than Ever
In the age of the obesity epidemic, thousands of new diet fads coupled with an overload of health and fitness information, there are really only a few key tips you need to keep in mind to stay healthy and fit. If you Google “best health tips” you will get over 1.3 million results. How is… Read more:
5 Health-Promoting Foods to Plant in Your Spring Garden
Feeling trapped by the icy winter weather? Here’s an activity that’ll have the whole family dreaming of spring: Start planning your 2013 vegetable garden. Here’s a list of healthful foods to consider planting this year: Broccoli: Broccoli makes all the super-food lists. According to research, it’s a cancer-fighter, it lowers blood pressure, and it might… Read more:
13 Ways to Cultivate a Better Food System in 2013
As we start 2013, many people will be thinking about plans and promises to improve their diet and health. But we think a broader collection of farmers, policy-makers, and eaters need new, bigger resolutions for fixing the food system – real changes with long-term impacts in fields, boardrooms, and on plates all over the world.… Read more:
The Invisible Threat to Humanity’s Future: The Global Water Crisis
Despite the critical role that water has in our everyday lives, few people realize that the world’s freshwater supply is facing a major crisis in the near future.… Read more:
Eat Your Foods the Healthy Way
Even if you eat highly nutritious food, it will not be assimilated into the body unless it is digested properly. When we eat something, the digestive enzymes in our alimentary canal break down the food into a form in which it can be easily absorbed into the body. If the food we consume is not… Read more:
Tips for Cutting Sugar from the Diet
The links between sugar consumption and devastating health problems are widely publicized. Not only is it a major player in the realm of weight gain and obesity, as well as a potential component in the onset of diabetes, but it can also be attributed to cerebral problems like memory loss and Alzheimer’s. Simply cutting out… Read more: