Disney XD’s “Improve Your Selfie” Healthy Living Spots
Check out Disney XD’s “Improve Your Selfie” healthy living spots, new animated shorts that support kids health and fitness.
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Back to School With Thermos Brand
It’s a new school year, and that means acquiring new gear for both my children. Sure, in most cases they could keep their previous backpacks and lunchboxes, but picking out new stuff for the upcoming educational journey is part of our annual ritual. (Also, I won’t discount the theory that my kids have inherited my predilection for accessories.)
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Babies Learn Food Preferences Before Birth
Do babies learn to prefer junk food as fetuses?
Continue ReadingFed Up With Food: The Case of the BIG COOKIE
A couple of years ago our local elementary school principal invited a nutritionist from a nearby university to come speak at our monthly PTA meeting. The speaker showed the video embedded above, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map that graphed obesity rates in the United States from 1985 to the present. It is […]
Continue ReadingFed Up With Food: The Case of the Big Cookie
A couple of years ago our local elementary school principal invited a nutritionist from a nearby university to come speak at our monthly PTA meeting. The speaker showed a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map that graphed obesity rates …
Continue ReadingTransparency in Nutrition Labeling–The FDA Wants Your Input
If you are what you eat, do you have any idea what you are? In an increasing push for nutrition transparency, you’ll soon at least know how many calories you’re taking in, whether you want to or not. If you …
Continue ReadingTransparency in Nutrition Labeling–The FDA Wants Your Input
If you are what you eat, do you have any idea what you are? In an increasing push for nutrition transparency, you’ll soon at least know how many calories you’re taking in, whether you want to or not. If you live in California, you’re already familiar with this. In 2008 it became the first state […]
Continue ReadingI Still Give My Three Year Old Baby Food – Review: Ella’s Kitchen Fruit Purees
Now before the health nuts and book parents going absolutely haywire, it’s just as the occasional snack. And if you think about it baby food is still just pureed grown-up food. Plus it’s not like I hand my kid a tiny jar and a rubber covered spoon. Ella’s Kitchen out of Canada now provides a much niftier […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom Tips: Meal In A Muffin Tin
For a change, make a meal in a muffin tin.
Continue ReadingFive Tools for Getting a Geek Running
Running. A word that used to make me groan with the thought of having to do it. Forced to run in P.E. class in school was pretty much the only time I ran – otherwise I avoided it at nearly …
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