Childhood Nutrition

Sweet Surprise

Christiana Wyly | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Foundation, Children, Corn, Sweetener, Green Living, Parenting, Childhood Nutrition, Subsidies, Sugar, Childhood Obesity, Nutrition, Tv, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Children's Health, Soil, Video, Chf, Living News
Christiana Wyly

What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.

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Food Follies: Feeding Children

Kay Goldstein | Posted 10.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Food, Parenting, Childhood Nutrition, Living News
Kay Goldstein

Food is our daily test against the Betty Crocker Scale of Motherly Competence, a relentless feedback so to speak, three meals a day for maybe eighteen years.

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Here Comes Hallowe'en

Donna Fish | Posted 10.17.2008 | Style

Read More: Candy, Food, Halloween, Childhood Nutrition, Kids, Overeating, Health, Style News
Donna Fish

Question foremost on parents' minds, (or that they pose to me) when Hallowe'en comes, is: "How do you manage the candy?" I thought of this the other ...

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The Mommy Wars and Picky Eaters

Donna Fish | Posted 07.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Picky Eaters, Worries, Childhood Nutrition, Healthy Thriving Kids, Parenting, Nutrition, Living News
Donna Fish

Is it possible that we need to look at our own anxiety and really see the needs of our kids as separate from our needs?

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Sorry, but We Really Are, Just Too Fat

Donna Fish | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Childhood Obesity, New York Times, Childhood Nutrition, Obesity, Home News
Donna Fish

Today's article in the New York Times, speaks of the dangers we are facing in terms of a national health crisis for our children, if we do not reverse...

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The 5 foot, 98 lb. "Obese Mom"

Donna Fish | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Pediatricians, Eating Disorders, Childhood Nutrition, Parenting, Home News
Donna Fish

she called herself when she walked into my office after calling to meet for a consultation about her 5 year old son. A teeny, beautiful woman, workin...

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Tales From the Food Couch

Donna Fish | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Weight Watchers, Childhood Nutrition, Picky Eater, Food History, Compulsive Overeating, Home News
Donna Fish

A woman sets up a consultation with me to help her with her Picky Eater, and starts off by saying: "My first experience with religion was with Weight ...

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Do You Want to Train Your Kid to Be a Compulsive Overeater?

Donna Fish | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Picky Eaters, Dessert, Compulsive Overeaters, Childhood Nutrition, Home News
Donna Fish

The obvious answer is of course a resounding "NO"! Hundreds of adults who come to me for help with weight issues, tell me stories of becoming member...

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Does Hiding Veggies in Their Food Give Your Kids Good Eating Habits?

Donna Fish | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Childhood Nutrition, Healthy Eating Habits, Family Mealtime, Home News
Donna Fish

The most commonly asked question I have gotten from parents in the last few months is: "What do I think of that new cookbook?" I think you know the ...

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Oh Good, More For Me!

Donna Fish | Posted 03.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Power Struggles, Picky Eaters, Childhood Nutrition, Family Meal Time, Living News
Donna Fish

I would say that the biggest complaints I hear about during my lectures and in consultations are from families who worry and tear their hair out over their picky eaters.

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I Have an Easier Time Talking with My Kids about Sex than Food

Donna Fish | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Eating Habits, Childhood Obesity, Body Type, Genetics, Childhood Nutrition, Overweight, Living News
Donna Fish

If children see that they can still have their favorite foods, reminding them of their job to take good care and feed their body the other food groups it needs, they are less likely to struggle.

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