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Break Your Fast

It’s National School Breakfast Week, and whether your kids eat at school or at home, pediatrician and nutrition expert Ronald Kleinman, M.D., chief of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at...

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Tips For Kid-Friendly Mediterranean Eats

Here’s a guest post from Dena Herman, Ph.D., of  the UCLA School of Public Health. She is a pediatric dietitian and Co-Director of the National Children’s Study for the Los Angeles-Ventura Study Center...

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An LAUSD Food Fighter

Parents of LAUSD: Jennie Cook would like you to do two things. Write a letter, and have lunch with your child – in your school cafeteria. Cook, a self-described “food advocate,” ran a restaurant for 11...

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From Pyramid to Plate

The government today said farewell to a staple of nutrition education – the Food Pyramid – and replaced it with something a bit closer to home. The new My Plate symbol is designed to send simple...

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Food Habits Lead To Mindless Eating

To keep yourself from shoveling in calories you don’t need, take a look at where and when you’re used to eating. That’s the message from a new USC study that found people used to eating in a given...

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Health-E Books: Eddie Shapes Up

Apparently Ed Koch, mayor of New York City from 1978-1989, was a chubby kid. And while he finally overcame being “more than just a little overweight” in high school, the pain and embarrassment stayed...

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Commercial Cuisine: Dippers Or Fries?

If you’re wondering whether it matters that your kids see all those fast-food commercials on TV, and whether telling them to eat healthy makes a difference, the answers are “yes” and “probably,”...

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For Healthy Babies, Eat Your Cereal

It’s as easy as eating a bowl of cereal, and if all women of childbearing age did it, hundreds of California babies would be born healthy – rather than with defects of the brain and spinal cord that...

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Big Changes in the School Cafeteria

Editor’s Note: Here’s a guest post from Deirdre Wilson, a colleague of mine and Senior Editor at Dominion Parenting Media. School cafeteria food is getting a major facelift. For the first time in 15...

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Can the Neighborhood Make Kids Fat?

With nearly 18 percent of school-aged children and adolescents in the U.S. now classified as obese, health experts and organizations have increasingly been pointing to nurture, rather than nature, as a...

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