Eating Organic To Avoid Pesticides

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Pesticides are a major concern to many families, and while we all want our children to eat healthy figuring out the maze of what to actually get ‘normally’ and what to get that is organic can be considerably tricky.

Which is Worse for Your Kids: Sugar or Salt?

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We have all heard how bad for us and our children sugars and surgery snacks are.  While sugar isn’t exactly the healthiest food out there, it is facing a new rival.
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Food Marketing and Kids

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While most who may have watched television during what is typically ‘children’s time’ may not be a stranger to marketing towards children, there has been a lot of uproar over the practices in recent times.

Doctors Urging For a Safer Hot Dog

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Doctors are urging the food industry to develop a ‘choking-proof’ hot-dog. Food related choking is one of leading causes of death for young children, and the American Academy of Pediatrics is a huge supporter of the move.

Parents Paying More Attention to What Kids Eat

 
Maybe it’s due to the constant stories in the news about the obesity epidemic, or the natural concern as parents we feel for out children. Whatever the reasons, a study is showing that parents have been paying attention to what their kids are eating when they are looking at the menu.