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Sugar Is Addictive

Nonna Joann • August 1st, 2008 • Horrible Foods

Reduce the amount of sugar in your kid’s diet!
Today, people eat one hundred and fifty pounds of sugar in a year. That’s two-and-a-half pounds of sugar each week! Eliminating (or at least drasticly reducing) sugars from your picky child’s diet is esential. For the child who’s not eating a healthy variety of foods, this one adjustment […]



Kids Eat Too Much Sugar

Nonna Joann • July 3rd, 2008 • News & Views

It’s really no surprise that kids eat too much sugar. We already know that. But it’s good to have it backed up with facts. According to an online article from the Journal of Pediatrics, the health of preschoolers is seriously compromised: by the amount of sugar in their diets!
They found that preschoolers are eating 14 to […]



Parenting a Picky Eater

Nonna Joann • May 21st, 2008 • Spoonful of Love

Take the Baby Bites quiz—
Find out how proficient you are at promoting picky eating in your prodigy.
 
If your offspring is eating primarily fast foods, white flour, sugar, and only a few whole foods, you’re headed in the right direction for raising a picky eater. Picky eaters universally love these foods while refusing to eat whole […]



Do Americans Eat Better?

Nonna Joann • April 28th, 2008 • News & Views

We regularly lie about three things: sex, money, and what we eat.
We lie most about what we eat. Because we desperately want to believe we eat a healthy diet; we comfort ourselves with lies and food myths. We believe we eat better than most of the world!
Americans are fatter than the rest of the world, […]



Reduce Sugars in Your Child’s Diet

Nonna Joann • April 15th, 2008 • News & Views

You can be one smart cookie when you eliminate, or at least drastically reduce, sugars from your child’s diet. Especially for the picky eater, who isn’t eating a healthy variety of foods, this one adjustment will open the door to appreciating different tastes.Keep your pantry stocked with nourishing items! If healthful foods are easily accessible, […]



A “S.A.D.” Diet

Nonna Joann • April 10th, 2008 • News & Views

Thirty years ago, I was like most moms, I didn’t have clue as to what was in the food I was purchasing. Our family ate the Standard American Diet, which is S.A.D.
My journey to whole foods began when Jenny, my third daughter, was diagnosed as hyperactive. Her pediatrician wanted to write a prescription at her […]



Baby Bites™ Tackles the Sugar Monster

Nonna Joann • March 27th, 2008 • Horrible Foods

The sugar monster lives in your house, because you let him! In fact, you regularly invite him in. Unless your children are driving and have an income, they’re eating the foods you purchase.I would love to slay that lying sugar monster, who’s convinced your kids that sugar is the only yummy flavor. I’d give him […]