Nutrition
Fruit Juice Causing Restlessness – Follow-up
After my October 26, 1999 column on fruit juices causing restlessness in children, I've gotten into a number of conversations about juice with parents and healthcare providers. Most were unaware of an…
Fruit Juice Causes Restlessness
One of the most common topics I'm asked about from parents all over the world is how to get babies to rest better. Parents certainly don't want to do anything to make their children's rest worse. (mor…
Cow’s Milk and Diabetes
Dr. Greene reports on a study looking at cow's milk and type 1 diabetes... Pediatric News (33(8):2, 1999), has reported on a significant new study coming out of Finland. Up until now, the relationship…
EPA Bans Fruit & Vegetable Pesticides
In August 1999, the United States Environmental Protection Agency made a truly historic move by banning certain uses of two organophosphate pesticides commonly used on fruit and vegetables in order to…
A Solid Foundation
When your children are grown, much of their long-term health will depend on what they ate as kids, nutrition experts reported at the July 1999 National Conference on Advances in Pediatric Nutrition at…
Could Childhood Obesity be a Genetic Disorder? Yes!
The July issue of Pediatrics reports convincing evidence (from an investigation of twins growing up in different environments) that up to 80% of the variation in body fat between children is genetic a…
Healthy Eating, Part V – Good news for vegetable haters everywhere!
Given the opportunity, starting your baby off with good eating habits is a great way to go. Even if it's too late for that now, an important lesson from the first feedings still applies: New tastes ca…
Helping Kids Eat Smart
Encourage your children's teachers to teach the class at least a little about good nutrition at the beginning of each year. If eating well is confirmed by this outside authority and is tied in with su…
Healthy Eating, Part IV – Motivators for school age children and adolescents
During school years, the phenomenon of peer pressure begins to become a very powerful force. Children see what's packed in each other's lunches. And, yes, it's not unusual for your darling to trade th…
Healthy Eating, Part III – The five greatest motivators for preschool children to eat healthy foods
Let's get practical with my five greatest motivators for preschool children to eat healthy foods. (more…)…
Healthy Eating, Part II – What foods do children need? What foods should be avoided?
When my son Kevin was about 3 years old, he spied a green pea. He picked it up between his fingers and rolled it over. It looked good! He then pushed the pea up his nose. Interesting. Vegetables are f…
Healthy Eating, Part I – How important is good nutrition?
With all that we know about tobacco, how can people still smoke? Easy. They're enticed by big business; they enjoy it; it's cool; and it's very, very habit forming. Now for the truth--poor nutritional…
The Relationship between Sugar and Behavior in Children
The effect of sugar intake on children's behavior is a hotly debated topic in pediatrics. Parents and educators often contend that sugar and other carbohydrate ingestion can dramatically impact childr…