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America: Home of the free, the brave, and the morbidly obese? That doesn’t have quite have the ring it used to. The Institute of Medicine
Stock your refrigerator with ready to eat fruits and vegetables—fresh, frozen, or canned. If buying canned veggies, keep your heart healthy by assuring no sodium
We’ve all been there: while grocery shopping, we promise ourselves we will eat more fresh fruits and so we stock up. But, then we get
MODEL YOUR VEGGIES: If you eat your veggies then your kids will eat theirs too. Research suggests the chances a child eats recommended amounts of
We all know that Halloween means candy but you can include some fun activities too! Here are some tips on how to make this Halloween a little
Many of us are still cleaning up crumbs from Thanksgiving, while wrapping gifts for Christmas and Hanukkah. Many are also still “recovering” from turkey overdose,
Last week Congress declared a resolution to make September our National Childhood Obesity Month. Certainly, a yearly reminder about this serious national problem is a
As noted by the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, rates of obesity in children ages 2 to 5 have more than doubled since
A study published this month in Pediatrics found that obese children as young as 3 years old have elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker
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