Nutrition & Exercise

Nutrition needs and developmental skills change as a child grows. An age-appropriate diet is one that provides the nutrients a child needs to grow and to develop. It also includes foods that a child likes and can eat easily. The Food Guide Pyramid...

As seen in Spring 2009 Stay Healthy Magazine Studies show consuming high levels of lutein and vitamin E in your diet can reduce your risk of developing macular degeneration or cataracts.   Good Sources of Lutein include: Green Vegetables Egg Yolks...

Do you skip your workout when you're feeling under the weather?  Studies performed by Ball State University suggest that it may be best to keep up the pace, even if you have a cold. Dr. Kaminsky and his colleagues infected volunteers with a...

We are all born with the intuitive knowledge to eat when hungry and stop when satisfied.  Think back to when you were a child (or, if that is too long ago, think back to when your children were very young!).  Until "rules" are imposed by...

Some people overeat because they are trying to numb unpleasant emotions, or prolong the pleasurable ones.  Others eat too much because it just tastes good, and they indulge beyond the point of self-nourishment in an act of rebellion or...

I love yogurt. With it's live bacterial cultures, high calcium content, and protein to boot, it is often praised as a healthy, wholesome snack--especially for women, who have a higher RDA for calcium than men but too often fail to eat enough dairy or...

1 cup peanut butter1 cup brown sugar1 eggThat is the original recipe in it's entirety, but I've always added 1/2 cup oatmeal to bulk it up a bit and add some texture. This is the only thing I think I've ever cooked that I don't need instructions...

WHAT IS IT? High-fructose corn syrup is produced by milling corn to produce corn starch then processing the corn starch to yield corn syrup. The corn syrup at that point is almost entirely glucose. Enzymes that change the glucose into fructose, which...