Archive for the 'Healthy Kids' Category

Healthy hats protect from the sun

It’s summertime. We all want to be external as much as we can, considering before you know it, the days will be short and the ground will be covered with snow.

While getting about 20 minutes of sun each day is urgent for our vitamin D levels, too much sun can lead to painful burns and risks o…

Active fun with your kids

Summer is quickly drawing to a shut, so why not take advantage of these final days before the school year starts and spend some fun, active instance with your kids?

My son has been going to a great day camp that summer. He loves it, he gets tons of physical activity, and he’s always filled with s…

Goody bag free


For the first day ever my son’s birthday party — a Star Wars bash in honor of his seventh birthday — did not come total with a goody bag. My husband and I have always been annoyed by the mountain of crappy trinkets and sugary candies that end up clogging the hoover cleaner and our children’s tee…

To deceive or not to deceive? Teaching kids to eat healthfully

There have been a couple of cookbooks on the market recently that show how to “hide” vegetables and other healthy ingredients in food. I’m not opposed to that, per se. I just made a zucchini bread where I increased the amount of zucchini and replaced most of the oil the recipe called for with no…

When all the teaching pays off

As a mom, I work pretty tough (like all of you) to manufacture certain that my kids not only eat a healthy diet, but that they memorize how to compose good choices about what they put in their mouth. Though my three-year-old still needs a little convincing, my five-year-old is really starting to…

We Love To Gawk At Fit Celebs: The Jonas Brothers talk about diabetes

Nick Jonas, one of the three Jonas Brothers, was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago, at the age of 13, and he remembers thinking, “Why me?” Diabetes was a disease he’d heard of, but he didn’t know anybody who had the disease, which it even scarier. However, he didn’t stay scared for long.

Andy Camper

that weekend my son and I are going on a vacation. While we’re staying in a cabin, we’ll be spending most of our instance outdoors — at the beach, sand dunes, nature trails, and hiking paths. Both my son and I love to explore and check out what nature has to offer. A new web portal, Andy Camper…

Avoid these 9 kid foods

In our fast-paced, processed-food country, it can be fit to surround your children with healthy, nutritious pre-packaged options. But when you have to reach for that box or can of kid-friendly food, TIME magazine outlines nine kid foods you might want to avoid. The major culprits are, of course,…

New technique may be able to identify signs of OCD before they take hold

Using a functional MRI (fMRI) to degree underactivation in convinced parts of the brain may soon be used by current diagnostic techniques, which generally don’t identify obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) until it has already developed.

According to an article that recently arised in the pee…

Smoking addiction may be in the genes for some people

A joint study out of the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin-Madison revealed that citizens with convinced genetic variations may be at higher risk for fitting life-long nicotine addicts whether they start smoking before they turn 17.

In that study, which involved 2,827 long-te…

Happy meals aren’t so happy

A recent report reveals that fast-food kid’s meals have too many calories. that would be the point that you say “No, duh!”

Quite unsurprisingly, nearly every combination of the kid’s meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, and Chick-fil-A are too fattening. Restaurants — like McDonald’s and Burger K…

Boys and girls experience different benefits from breakfast

My son has ADHD and I know how vital a good breakfast is for him. When he gets a nutritious breakfast — preferably with some whole grains — and gets good exercise in the AM, he’s always more focused and better able to control his behavior. preceding research has confirmed what I (and probably …

Top breakfast cereals for your kids

I’ve written before about my son’s love of sugary, sugary cereals. His preferences and tastes have changed a lot since I adopted him a year ago, but having a sugary breakfast is a preference that’s been tough to break. To help my son choose healthier foods in the dawn, I tend to prepare oatmeal …

Next Page »