How To Make A Healthy School Lunch For Kids by Jane Sheppard Let’s face it. We have to get more creative with our children’s school lunches. The junk foods in the fancy, colorful wrappers that come to school in many kids’ lunch boxes are way too tempting for our kids to resist. I used to…
The Shocking Truth about How Food is Produced I just watched the new documentary, Food, Inc. For me, it brought up strong emotion, but also a commitment to write about the positive side of the issue – what you can do to provide your family with healthy, safe, sustainable food and change the state of…
Randall Neustaedter OMD Cow’s milk has been promoted as a perfect food for children, high in protein, calcium, and healthy calories. On the other hand, milk’s detractors, including knowledgeable physicians, have noted milk’s many problems. Cow’s milk ingestion has been associated with allergies, anemia, autism, diabetes, and cancer. What should parents do? Let’s try to…
By Jane Sheppard Many parents are frustrated at times because our children won’t eat the foods we know to be healthy for them. Simply being informed about a healthy diet for children is not enough. If your child does not want to eat healthy foods, it does them no good at all. So what does…
By Nancy Appleton, Ph.D. Children’s Sugar Intake is Excessive Unfortunately many little girls and little boys, too, are made of sugar; the sugar they eat. The average person eats 153 pounds of sugar a year, which is equivalent to over half a cup a day. The average teenage boy eats twice as much sugar than…
By Jane Sheppard Wouldn’t it be great to have a completely non-toxic sweetener that does not raise blood sugar levels, has no calories, may help prevent cavities, and is much sweeter than sugar so you need less? Well, we do have such a substance, and it’s available from herbalists and at health food stores. This…
By Krispin Sullivan, CN Doctor Price was right, as usual. Cod liver oil is very good for you, more than you ever knew. Research studies ranging from 1918-2001 give cod liver oil an A+ rating. This marvelous golden oil contains large amounts of elongated omega-3 fatty acids, preformed vitamin A and the sunlight vitamin D,…
by Dr. Laura Mason-Scarborough Hold the Fritos, and pass the carrots. Most kids today are not eating what they need for proper growth and general health. According to the September ‘97 Journal of Pediatrics, only 1% of American children aged 2 to 19 eat healthy diets. With a rapidly growing kid’s vitamin industry, it is…
by Jane Sheppard In an ideal world, our kids would be getting enough nutrients from the food they eat. But we know that is not always the case. Even if we buy organic whole food, our children will not always eat it. A sad reality for a vast amount of kids is that they like…
Amy Hemmert and Tammy Pelstring(reprinted from laptoplunches.com) If you’re like us, you start the school year with enthusiastic plans to send your kids to school with lunches that are nutritious, affordable, and easy to make. You promise that you’ll plan ahead. You’ll put more effort into it. You’ll cut out the junk. But somehow mid-year…
7 Essential Layers of a Healthy Lunch Keys to Creative Kids Meals Why Seven Layers? The Seven Layers represent the seven components (of both food and fun) for making healthy, creative kids meals. Designed by Laura Pasetta, the creator of the Visual Guide: How To Make A Healthy Lunch For Kids, and perfected over…
Rediscovering The Homemade Lunch One Mom’s Reflections On The Simple Importance Of This Daily Tradition By Laura Pasetta When I was a child, I was lucky. My mother prepared a homemade lunch for me to take to school every day. And even though I wasn’t always excited about the carrot sticks or oatmeal cookies, her…