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Tips to Help Children Eat Healthy Snacks

It's no big secret that food companies use cartoons, cartoon characters, bold colorful labeling and even the latest hip young celebrity to attract kids to foods. From candy to cereal, from TV dinners to chips, cartoon figures and product placement in cartoons is a genius marketing tool. Well now the health food scene is climbing on... Read more Chevron

posted 03/30/2011, comments (0)|

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The New Weight Watchers PointsPlus Program

If you've been a member of Weight Watchers recently, or if you have simply followed their diet plan, then you have been a point counter. Experts in the fields of diet and nutrition have like the ease and convenience of the approach to eating. Points were assigned based on calories per serving of thousands of foods. But certain... Read more Chevron

posted 12/06/2010, comments (4)|

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Change Logistics of School Cafeterias to Encourage Healthy Eating

Five days a week kids eat one, sometimes two meals, plus snacks at school. One of the biggest challenges schools face is offering an affordable healthy meal that conforms to certain nutrition guidelines. The there's the challenge of getting kids who have been raised on high fat, high sodium, high sugar, high calorie tasty foods to... Read more Chevron

posted 11/18/2010, comments (0)|

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Should Eating Fruits and Vegetables be the Law?

(Sourced from The New York Times) Maybe you missed the headlines offered by the New York Times after day number one of Elena Kagan's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Apparently she was doing quite well until Senator Tom Coburn a Republican from Oklahoma posed the following question, "Can the government pass a law forcing... Read more Chevron

posted 08/18/2010, comments (0)|

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Americans Don't Eat Enough Vegetables

No news here - Americans are simply not eating their vegetables. Despite over 20 years of health initiatives, government nutrition guidelines, growing farmer's markets, and the ease of accessing frozen vegetables, we are not eating our veggies. Only 26% of Americans eat three or more servings of vegetables daily. And there has... Read more Chevron

posted 01/31/2010, comments (0)|