Toddler/Preschooler Nutrition
Healthy Snacks
Healthy snacks for your kids will keep their energy level up, mood stabilized, and give them more ability to pay attention. Finding healthy snacks can be a challenge. Prepackaged snacks are readily available and easy for kids to help themselves to. Also, when in a rush, it’s much easier for us parents to grab and go. […]
The Picky Eater
The picky eater is a child who develops a small repertoire of food that she eats and she manipulates her parents and caregivers into providing only those foods. This does not make her a “bad” child. She’s just been trained by us adults not to explore foods and try different things. There are certainly some […]
How to Stop Breast feeding | When to Wean
How to stop breast feeding and the appropriate time to stop breast feeding varies from one mom & baby to another. Whether you’ve breast fed your child for a year or a month, weaning is a decision for you to make or sometimes your infant makes for you. Even if your child has decided to wean from […]
Empty Calories | Your Child’s Nutrition
Empty calories are calories your child consumes that have a poor nutritional quality — also known as “Junk Foods”. These foods are high in calories with little to no nutritional benefits. A recent NIH study showed that nearly 40% of the energy consumed by 2- to 18-year-olds comes in the form of empty calories. Empty calorie […]