Want your kids to get enough calcium? Set a good example and drink milk too


Hey moms, if you want your daughters to grow strong and healthy, serve them milk, and pour a glass for yourself, too! The most available source of calcium in our food supply comes from milk and foods made with milk, so it’s not surprising that those who drink more milk get more calcium. 

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Kids & Snacking

Snacking is a very important part of a kid’s day. Growing children often need more food energy than they can easily consume at a single meal. In fact, about 20 percent of a child's energy and nutrients come from snacks. 

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Starting the Day off Right

Let’s face it, we’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but all too often we not only neglect it for ourselves, but don’t enforce and encourage our kids to eat in the morning

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Eating Properly Can Only Help

Adequate and proper nutrition is important for kids as they grow and develop.  It is compounded in sports, when athletic performance becomes increasingly paramount for their success.  It is easier for kids to reach for a bag of chips or a can of soda at school...

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What Fuels our Body?

Our bodies are all about energy.  And energy provides the fuel our body needs to do work.  Since our body is always working, it needs continuous energy.  

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"DIET" vs. "DIET"

There's a big difference between a "diet" (i.e. a regimented food plan to help you lose weight), and your diet (i.e. what you consume on a regular basis), and this is a big part of the problem with confusion among all of us.  

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Obesity, Are Our Children At Risk?

"That's just baby fat," "so he's a little chunky," "no need
to worry, she'll outgrow it."

Heard these expressions before? I bet you have, probably you
have even stated them. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad
news but statistics reveal that our present generation of
"future" adults is at an alarming risk level

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Diet & Nutrition

 
 
   
 

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