There's been several news stories recently about the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines. The bottom line: Nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population needs to eat more vegetables and we all eat too much sugar. A few foods that many of us were shying away from for health reasons received a cleaner bill of health:
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Category Archives: parents
Fuel Your Children’s Dreams! RECIPES. Thursday. 1pm ET
Do you have an aspiring NBA player, veterinarian, dancer or singer in your home? How about a child determined to be an Olympian gymnast, MLB star, teacher, artist or policeman. Thousands of kids have shared their dreams with me and I simply tell them, “You can be that but you have to do 3 things: learn
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Food is Medicine! RECIPES. Thursday, 1pm ET
Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to go to the pharmacy for over the counter drugs or prescribed medicines? Instead, why not turn to food to prevent and heal your body? The truth is Food is Medicine. Here to prove this is our guest, Dr. Patricia Bragg, Health Crusader, Angel of
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Who Decides What Fills Your Grocery Store Shelves and Why! Thurs. 1pm ET
Do you ever wonder who decides what brands and flavors of cereals are offered to you in your grocery store? How do they select ones they want to sell from the hundreds made by food companies? How do they evaluate the quality, or do they? How about pasta? When you add up the number of
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Supplements for Kids. YES or NO? Dr. Bob Sears. Thurs. 1pm ET
The great debate: should kids be given supplements or not? Does age make a difference? When are they necessary, if at all? If so, what and how much? Also, how do you know which ones are reliable? What foods best take the place of supplements? Some see taking vitamins as an insurance policy, especially for
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Healthiest Processed Foods. RECIPES. Thursday 1pm ET
Is there such a thing as “healthiest processed food?” Can you buy packaged food that has retained needed naturally sourced nutrients during the processing? What should you look for on the packaging that will assure you it’s a good buy? Fortunately, our guest, Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, Food and Nutrition Expert, Author of The
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Brain Food for Mental Sharpness at Any Age! RECIPES. Sunday. 1pm ET
Wait until you hear what our guest, Dr. David Perlmutter, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain, has to say about what foods will and won’t positively affect our brain health. You may have heard the controversy resulting from his declaration that wheat, sugar and carbs have devastating effects on brain function.
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Meet “The Food Teacher” of the United Kingdom. RECIPES. SUNDAY. 1pm ET
Because Jamie Oliver’s food programs originated in England, the question is, are kids there now choosing to eat healthier foods? If not, what is turning kids on to better-for- you meals there? Or, are they eating them at all? What about the school lunch programs – have they improved? Or, are moms in the United
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Feeding Your Child’s Brain for Success! RECIPES, TODAY, 1pm ET
From the moment of conception and for the rest of their lives, children’s brains are shaped by the nutrients fed to them. That means what you, mom, eat during pregnancy and what they eat from birth determines the health of their brain. If you want to know what are the best for success brain
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