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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 […]
Tags: children, HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, honey, kids and sugar, nutrition label, picky eater, polyols, sugar, sugar alcohols
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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 […]
Tags: baby bites, healthy foods, picky eater, sugar, sweets
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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 […]
Tags: children's eating habits, fussy eater, persnickety, picky eater, picky eating, quiz, sugar
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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, […]
Tags: cost of eating well, eating habits, fast foods, health, MSG, sugar, trans fat, what we eat
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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, […]
Tags: healthy, pantry, picky eater, snacks, sugar, sweet treats, yummy snacks
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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 […]
Tags: ADD, additives, Autism, baby bites, diet, eating habits, families, GMO, healthy diet, natural, organic, Standard American Diet, sugar
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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 […]
Tags: baby bites, healthy snacking, kids, picky eater, soda pop, sugar, sweet, taste buds, whole foods
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