children

How to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables

A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found kids will usually eat vegetables if they’re disguised in other foods. If you grew up eating soggy spinach and limp broccoli, you at some point likely developed a strong distaste for vegetables. That’s the only reason I can imagine kids have such a [...]

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Ditching Dairy & Gluten Found Effective for Autism

A new study in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience found a diet without gluten and casein could improve behavior and physiological symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Penn State researchers asked 387 parents and caregivers of kids with ASD to fill out an online survey about GI symptoms, food allergy diagnoses, food sensitivities, [...]

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Revamped School Lunch Menus a Mixed Bag

If you’ve ever stepped foot in a school cafeteria, you likely bore witness to the chicken nuggets, tater tots, and other Frankenfoods that somehow pass for nourishment for our kids. Recently the government gave a much-needed cleanup to federally subsidized school lunches for the first time in 15 years. Many critics, along with First Lady [...]

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Think Kids Won’t Eat Healthy Food?

I hear from parents all the time who bemoan the fact that their kids won’t touch “healthy” food. If you’re a parent who has this particular challenge (and what parent doesn’t?) here’s a really cute and interesting video shot at the Weston Price conference. It was given to me by our friend Randy Hartnell, president [...]

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New Cholesterol Guidelines: Utter Madness

Usually I try to write these newsletter articles with a modicum of objectivity and fairness, checking my passion at the gate. But this latest travesty from the Cholesterol Establishment is simply too much to take sitting down. On Nov 11, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued new guidelines on cholesterol. They now advise [...]

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The Best Diet for Maintaining Weight Loss

Researchers in Denmark have found that a high-protein low-GI diet was significantly better than other diets tested at maintaining weight loss in subjects who had already successfully shed pounds. My father used to have a favorite saying: “It’s easy to stop smoking. I myself have done it lots of times!” The same could be said [...]

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Junk Food and IQ

Think you’re born with a certain IQ and there’s nothing you can do about it? Think again. A long-term health research project tracking the dietary intake of  around 14,000 children born in the early 90’s identified three dietary patterns: processed (high in sugar and fat) traditional (high in meat and vegetables) health conscious (lots of [...]

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Vitamin Angels: Making A Difference

In 2008 the Copenhagen Business School asked eight eminent economists to imagine they had $75 billion to spend on causes that would most help the world. Five of their top ten involved nutrition: vitamin supplements for children, adding zinc and iodine to salt and breeding extra micronutrients into crops. Lack a Day Deficiencies and their [...]

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