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Tag Archives: nutrition
Disney XD’s “Improve Your Selfie” Healthy Living Spots
Check out Disney XD’s “Improve Your Selfie” healthy living spots, new animated shorts that support kids health and fitness. Read More
Babies Learn Food Preferences Before Birth
Do babies learn to prefer junk food as fetuses? Read More
Fed Up With Food: The Case of the BIG COOKIE
A couple of years ago our local elementary school principal invited a nutritionist from a nearby university to come speak at our monthly PTA meeting. The speaker showed the video embedded above, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map that graphed obesity rates in the United States from 1985 to the present. It is… Read More
Transparency in Nutrition Labeling–The FDA Wants Your Input
If you are what you eat, do you have any idea what you are? In an increasing push for nutrition transparency, you’ll soon at least know how many calories you’re taking in, whether you want to or not. If you live in California, you’re already familiar with this. In 2008 it became the first state… Read More
I Still Give My Three Year Old Baby Food – Review: Ella’s Kitchen Fruit Purees
Now before the health nuts and book parents going absolutely haywire, it’s just as the occasional snack. And if you think about it baby food is still just pureed grown-up food. Plus it’s not like I hand my kid a tiny jar and a rubber covered spoon. Ella’s Kitchen out of Canada now provides a much niftier… Read More
GeekMom Tips: Meal In A Muffin Tin
For a change, make a meal in a muffin tin. Read More
