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Healthy Eating for Families: How to Avoid Choking

Healthy Eating for Families: How to Avoid Choking

  by Roberta Duyff, MS RD FADA Having teeth doesn’t mean children can handle all foods. Small, hard foods … slippery foods … and sticky foods can block the air passage, cutting off a child’s supply of oxygen. Don’t [...]

Ice Speed: Fueling Strategies for Hockey

Ice Speed: Fueling Strategies for Hockey

by Monique Ryan, MS RD CSSD LDN   When it comes to fuel, the demands of high school ice hockey players are great. Speeding explosively across the ice requires muscular strength, endurance, and superior skating skills. Consuming [...]

Kids Unplugged

Kids Unplugged

by Jodie Shield, LD MED RD and Mary Mullen, MS RD Whether your child is in preschool or high school, one thing is for certain — it is time for you to seize the remote and take control. Reducing [...]

Know Your Child’s BMI

Know Your Child’s BMI

  By: Jodie Shield, RD and Mary Mullen RD From Kids Eat Right http://www.eatright.org/kids/article.aspx?id=6442467451 Want to know how your child’s weight measures up? It’s tricky to tell whether a child or teen is overweight. Since kids are [...]

Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight…  on sale now

Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight… on sale now

In a world of fast food, supersized sodas and television temptations, it’s no wonder that childhood obesity has hit the national spotlight.  In this book, we will show families how you can buck the trend, and [...]