The Importance of Vitamin A
Vitamin A is vital for baby's optimum vision development, bone growth, cell division and cell differentiation. It also strengthens his immune system so that he can prevent or fight off infections. Read the full article to see how Earth's Best baby foods can help your baby get the USDA recommended daily serving of Vitamin A, or download the PDF.

The Importance of Vitamin C
Earth's Best fortifies many of its infant foods with vitamin C. We add it for a few, very good reasons: as essential nutrient for your growing baby and as an antioxidant to help preserve the freshness of the product. Read the full article to see how Vitamin C benefits baby, or download the PDF.

No Vacation from Healthy Eating
Healthy eating habits are developed, not born. Making a practice of buying and serving mostly fresh, organic, and minimally processed foods will help your child grow a preference for those foods. Vacation time is an opportunity for you to reinforce those preferences. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

The Road to Healthier Snacking
Developing healthy eating habits is a lifelong journey that starts with the first swallow. Earth's Best can help nurture take those first, healthy eating steps. Beginning with Organic Infant formula followed by a full line of organic infant foods, it's easy to start your children on a path of wholesome eating. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

Earth's Best Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held as a peaceful day of demonstration and education to improve awareness, appreciation and care for our earth. Twenty-nine years later, its mission and importance are still as critical. Here are some Earth's Best tips on how you and your children can help us continue that mission and celebrate Earth Day. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

An Apple A Day...
The word ‘vitamin’ comes from the word ‘vital’ meaning necessary for life. The best way to get your vitamins is from food. That's because foods evolved with a certain level and mixture of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that work with each other to support and compliment their individual roles. With a varied diet, it's easy to get all the nutrients you need. Getting your child to eat something from each group, every day, or several times a week is nature's best insurance policy for good health. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

How to Have a Happy Healthy Birthday
Whether that party is just for the kids, or it's a family celebration, it's easy to make it fun, festive AND nutritious. Instead of defaulting to the traditional chips, pizza, burgers, cake and ice cream, create a healthier, more delicious celebration. Here are some ideas to ignite your own creative party plans. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

An Ounce of Prevention from a Gram of Antioxidants
It's a fact... that people tend to have more illnesses during the winter months. With limited exposure to fresh air when we stay indoors and are in closer contact with eachother's germs, we tend to get sick more easily. Children are especially susceptible to colds, flu and other viruses as their immune systems are still developing. While the goal is to avoid these nasty bugs as much as possible, it makes sense to also boost our natural barriers to avoid getting sick once you are exposed. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

Start Some Healthy Holiday Food Traditions
Our holidays are grounded in traditions that are a link with our past and a certainty in our lives of constant change. There is value in holiday rituals. In a new home it can bring a sense of continuity to a transformed life. It can provide order and comfort when things in your life are unpredictable or out of control. For children especially, this sense of order and predictability is important. Then, when kids grow up and leave home they can carry these traditions with them, keeping them always connected to you. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

Seasonal Harvest Serve Up Abundant Nutrition
Earth's Best Organic Seasonal Harvest Blends gather the bounty of nutritional fall foods and blend them into traditional favorites. You already know that nutritious foods are important to baby's growth and development, but did you also know that traditions are as well? Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

"Radical" Reasons for Antioxidant Rich Baby Food
Babies are big eaters (relative to their size) and fast growers. Because of this, they use lots of oxygen that helps cells metabolize food into the energy that is necessary for development. A natural outcome of this process is the production of free radicals - cells that are missing an electron on their outer shell. Left unchecked, these free radicals will look to "steal back" that electron from other cells including DNA, proteins, and fats. These free radicals can interfere with healthy growth and development. Read more of the full article, or download the PDF.

Tip Top Nutrition Helps Toddlers Learn
The foods your child does and does not eat can have a big impact on school success. Read the full article, or download the PDF.

Two Things You Worry About, Three Things You Can Do About It
As pesky as picky eating may seem, there are three simple things you can do to help. Read the full article, or download the PDF.

Make Snacks Something to Smile About
For toddlers and preschoolers, snacks are as important as meals because they can’t eat enough in three meals to get all the nutrition they need in day. Read the full article, or download the PDF.

Thinking Outside The (Baby Food) Jar
Think baby food is just for babies? Use your imagination to discover the multitude of ways older children can enjoy the nutritional benefits that baby food has to offer. Read the full article, or download the PDF.

Nutrition: Brain Boosters
Food nourishes both your child’s body and your child’s mind. In the early years, the brain has some unique nutritional needs. Read more at the full article, or download the PDF.

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