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Loving Less Expensive (and Junky) Food

Are the rising food prices killing your budget? Why not make some changes to adapt your family to more home cooked meals. They are generally less expensive and offer better nutrition. This is the third article in a series today in which I talk about how our food palate can influence our food choices and our budget. By training your pallet, to less expensive food, you can seriously reduce your food bill. If you missed the two earlier articles, click here: The Frugal Palate Phenomena and Training the Frugal Palate. Let’s continue. My own kids tend to prefer home cooked … Continue reading →

Mom Retains Custody of Son Suffering from Obesity

Nicola McKeown, age 35, a resident of Wallsend, in northeastern England, was permitted to keep her son after a child protection meeting with officials of North Tyneside Council. As part of the agreement, McKeown had to agree to place her son on a stringent diet and exercise regime. How did it come to this? Under the Children Act, local law officials must investigate if there is reason to believe that a child in their jurisdiction is being harmed or suffering. Connor McCreaddie, age 8, would have been placed on a child protection register and taken from his family because he … Continue reading →

Are Our Kids Making Us Fat?

Pizza, cheese, beef, salty snacks, cakes, cookies, ice cream, bacon, sausage, processed meat, peanuts. If you have a child under the age of 17 living at home, you’re more likely to have the above items in your shopping cart along with other high fat food. And these unhealthy food choices are making parents fat. According to the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, having a young child is one way to put on the pounds, at least for some parents. According to the journal, parents with kids under the age of 17 consume an extra 4.9 grams of … Continue reading →

The Hunger Junk Food Path

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A huge stumbling block in any weight loss program is hunger. While that may sound a bit hinky, consider that when you are hungry – your concentration is reduced and distractions are increased. When you are hungry, you begin to think about food – I daresay obsess about it. Hunger leads to mistakes like picking up junk food when you have to run in and pick up a gallon of milk. Grocery stores don’t help in this equation because most of them feature candies, chips and other sugar heavy foods at the checkout stands. They are there because grocery stores … Continue reading →

Banning Soda? Great First Step

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When I heard on the radio yesterday morning that the major soda companies had come to an agreement to limit their sales of sodas to schools, I was equal parts stumped and amazed. Nicki talked about the Soda School? No More! yesterday in the Parents blog, but I wanted to share with you my thoughts on it with regard to what a great first step it is to bettering health and fitness for our children. First and foremost, by limiting soda sales to only high schools and limiting it even further to be only diet sodas, we have the opportunity … Continue reading →

Soda In Schools? No More!

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We recently moved to a new school district and we couldn’t believe that our local elementary school had fully stocked vending machines, accessible to kids, full of sodas, candy and other unhealthy snacks. I can’t imagine why they would offer this or how these snacks could be beneficial to children or help promote learning. Rapidly rising childhood obesity rates have caused schools, often driven by parents, to also consider the connection between snacks and health. Most of these snacks, particularly soda and other drinks are high in sugar and devoid of any nutritional value at all. They are being consumed … Continue reading →

Junk Food and Mental Health

Would it surprise you to know that a diet rich in junk food makes for an increase in the occurrence of mental disorders? This is the latest research emerging from the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in California. But it hardly needs to be spelled out to us that eating too much junk food is not only bad for the way our bodies look, but also how our brains work.. It’s yet another case of garbage in, garbage out. But just to let the scientists have their fifteen minutes of fame, let’s take note that researchers found that rats fed … Continue reading →