New Guidelines for School Lunches

Posted on January 27, 2012 - Filed Under Nutrition | 1 Comment

“Improving the quality of the school meals is a critical step to building a healthy future for our kids.”
– Tom Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary
“A healthier population will save billions of dollars in future health care costs.”
–Dawn Undurraga, Environmental Working Group staff nutritionist
New guidelines were recently released to help improve school lunches.
The good:
Doubling the amount of fruits and [...]

Healthier Habits for Kids

Posted on December 4, 2011 - Filed Under Nutrition, healthy lifestyle | Leave a Comment

“Any combination of steps–making fruits and vegetables part of every meal, limiting treats, walking and playing, even shopping together—can add up to make a real difference in children’s lives and help build healthy habits for life.”
– LetsMove.gov: For Parents
Parents can really make a difference in helping kids develop healthy habits. You already know that. Think [...]

Healthy Monday – Cooking with Kids

Posted on May 16, 2011 - Filed Under Healthy Monday | Leave a Comment

Nothing better than involving the kids in the cooking. Help them learn cooking skills and healthy eating habits. Have a Healthy Monday!

Tips for Parents

Posted on May 12, 2011 - Filed Under healthy lifestyle | Leave a Comment

Tips for parents from LetsMove.gov. What do you do as parents to promote healthy lifestyle habits?

How to Help Kids Develop Healthy Habits

Posted on April 20, 2011 - Filed Under healthy lifestyle | Leave a Comment

This shouldn’t be anything you haven’t already heard. It’s more of a reminder for all of us.
If you want to help your kids develop healthy habits, you need to have healthy habits. I don’t think there is any way around that. Why would you expect your kids to choose vegetables, fruits and other healthy foods [...]

More Active Play

Posted on April 7, 2011 - Filed Under Exercise, physical activity | Leave a Comment

We all need physical activity, kids included. Here is more about physical activity for kids from LetsMove.gov.

Fast Food and Kids: Some Numbers

Posted on November 9, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition, food | 2 Comments

$4.2 billion: Dollars spent on fast food advertising in 2009.
40%: Percent of pre-school aged kids who ask parents to go to McDonalds on a weekly basis.
84%: Percent of parents who say they’ve taken their kids to get fast food at least once in the past week.
12: Number of kid’s meals (of the 3,000 possible combinations) [...]

Healthy Monday – Cook with Your Kids

Posted on November 8, 2010 - Filed Under Healthy Monday, Nutrition | 2 Comments

Each Monday, a simple health tip will be posted as part of Healthy Monday. Healthy Monday is a public health initiative founded in 2005 in association with Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, and Columbia Univerisity.
Their mission includes ending “chronic preventable disease in the U.S. by offering people and organizations a weekly prompt to start and sustain [...]

Strategies from Let’s Move

Posted on October 20, 2010 - Filed Under healthy lifestyle | 1 Comment

There are some great ideas from the Let’s Move campaign to get healthier. They involve everyone doing their part. Go here to learn more.

Honestly, I’d like to think that everyone working together can make a difference, but I really think it starts at home. Parents need to do their best to teach kids about eating [...]