My daughter’s school holds “Taste Test Tuesday,” in which students sample a piece of exotic or an unknown food. The idea is to encourage the students to try something new on occasion; to let them out of the rut of eating the same food every day. The real object, of course, is to encourage healthy alternatives in their [...]

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I’m often asked: How can I convince my children to eat healthy food?
This clearly is a widespread problem judging by the great numbers of books on store shelves that focus on how to cook with your kids, kid-friendly recipes, not fighting over food with your kids and so on.
The first rule is to set a [...]

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There was a news story I recently heard that involved a discussion around a water cooler. The point was brought up that a number of male birds, during mating season, flouted the color red in order to attract female birds.  The theory that hot colors give confidence to the male bird.
That prompted me to think [...]

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There is widespread agreement that obesity is an epidemic, especially among young people.  That is the tragedy.  Obesity at a young age is a struggle that you never outgrow it.  Of course, along with obesity comes those most deadly adult afflictions–heart disease and diabetes not to mention low self esteem– that you have to deal [...]

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