Toddler Articles
What’s In That Sippy Cup?
3 Essential Steps to Be Sure Your Child Is Drinking the Right Stuff
Complete ArticleLet's Get Growing!
Let your toddler cultivate a fresh, lasting connection with food by growing something to eat.
Complete ArticlePesticides and ADHD
We all know that pesticides protect our crops from harmful insects, but how harmful are those pesticides to your children? Read more about this discovery and ways to protect your children in our latest article here.
Complete ArticleEating For A Healthy Brain
Food nourishes both your child’s body and your child’s mind. In the early years, the brain has some unique nutritional needs.
Complete ArticleBring On Breakfast
Breakfast benefits a busy day for lots of reasons. But the biggest benefit comes from a nutrient rich breakfast.
Complete ArticleFeeding Your Toddler: A Creative Challenge
By Sue Gilbert, MS, Nutritionist
Toddlers are notoriously picky eaters, but children learn to accept foods in a social and cultural context.
Complete ArticleGetting Your Child To Pick Fruits & Vegetables
As pesky as picky eating may seem, there are three simple things you can do to help.
Complete ArticleHave 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.
Complete ArticleHealthy Favorite Foods
Healthy hints to help make your kids favorite foods to be healthy foods and healthy foods to be favorite foods.
Complete ArticleHealthy Snacking Throughout The Day
Snacks are as important as breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Complete ArticleMaking Kid Friendly Meals
By Sue Gilbert, MS, Nutritionist
Food nourishes both your child’s body and your child’s mind. In the early years, the brain has some unique nutritional needs.
Complete ArticleNon-Negotiable Nutrition
Some nutrimental practices are so important, you can't bargain them away in your child's diet.
Complete ArticlePlant The Seed For Vegetable Loving
The time to cultivate a habit of regular vegetable eating is in childhood. You’d be surprised at how many ways you can get your child to meet his recommended intake.
Complete ArticleProblem: Picky Eaters
By Shara Aaron, RD
Registered Dietitian Shara Aaron shares tips on how to sneak nutrition into your kids diets and broaden the horizons of even the most finicky eaters.
Complete ArticleRealistic Toddler Serving Sizes
By Sue Gilbert, MS, Nutritionist
Parents of one to three year olds often think their kids just don’t eat enough food. However, kids often do receive enough nutrition.
Complete ArticleReduce Illnesses With Antioxidants
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.
Complete ArticleSmart Snacking
By Ellie Krieger, RD, MS
Dietician Ellie Krieger shares tips to make snack time more enjoyable and nutritious. She discusses some of the more common problems involving snack time and finds some real-life solutions.
Complete ArticleTeaching Kids In The Kitchen
By Sue Gilbert, MS, Nutritionist
Getting kids involved with food, making it connect to everyday experiences, helping them to see food as a part of culture and history, or art and science will make nutrition and healthy eating fun and interesting.
Complete ArticleThe Healthiest Foods
The food pyramid divides foods into five distinct categories, but which of those foods are the healthiest?
Complete ArticleThe Importance Of Family Meals
By Sue Gilbert, MS, Nutritionist
Family meals help you and your children develop nutritional, social and cognitive benefits and should be considered part of your daily requirements.
Complete ArticleThe Importance Of Healthy Fats
By Sue Gilbert, MS, Nutritionist
Limiting fat in your baby's diet is like trying to fool Mother Nature, and it doesn't work. Read more about how a child who gains too little weight in childhood is at greater risk of becoming an overweight adult.
Complete ArticleThe Importance Of Protein
Proteins are the building blocks of our cells. Because babies are growing, they require plenty of high quality protein foods.
Complete ArticleThe Importance Of Water
Critical to good health, pure water isn’t the only way to get water since it is the main component of most fluids and many foods. Here are some tips to make fluids a little more enticing for your little ones.
Complete ArticleThe Whole Story On Whole Grains
For kids, especially babies, whole grains provide immediate health benefits and help to instill healthy eating habits to last a lifetime.
Complete ArticleTurn Baby Food To Toddler Friendly Recipes
By adding baby food to familiar recipes you can keep healthy baby foods contributing to your child’s diet for many years.
Complete ArticleWhere To Get Your Vitamins
The word ‘vitamin’ comes from the word ‘vital’ meaning necessary for life. The best way to get your vitamins is from food.
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