Super Parents Talk

By Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C.
If you go to an office every day, you’ve undoubtedly been at the mercy of co-workers, who can best be dubbed “sugar pimps.”
No disrespect intended, but I’m sure you know to whom I’m referring.
You know, those sweetly smiling, eager-to-please colleagues who continually proffer cakes, cookies and donuts with such polite insistence that, [...]

Getting Off The Roller Coaster
by Deborah Taylor-Hough
The biggest thing that seemed to keep me from pursuing  healthy eating habits for any significant length of time was personal time constraints. Busy, busy, busy. Like many people today, I didn’t have time to get home-cooked meals on the table regularly — much less take the time to [...]

How to Avoid Kids’ Blood Sugar “Spike and Crash”
by Missy Chase Lapine
 Kids love roller coasters. Moms don’t — well, at least not the ones that take place inside our homes! I’m talking about the “spike and crash” syndrome that describes the rapid ups and downs of children’s blood sugar levels when they eat too much [...]

New study shows merits of hiding healthy foods in kids’ meals
by Missy Chase Lapine
 On May 1, 2007 a new Pennsylvania State University clinical study — conducted by Dr. Barbara Rolls and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — was released. The study showed that sneaking vegetables into children’s meals reduces their consumption of calorie-dense [...]

Keep plenty of healthy foods on hand for your children versus junk foods. Eventually your child will get use to having the healthy snacks available and will be more likely to eat them on their own.
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