Healthline Blogs
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How Well are We Fighting Childhood Obesity?
How are we doing so far in the fight against childhood obesity? That was the question the Institute of Medicine (IOM) asked and attempted to answer in a report released yesterday entitled Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure...
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Recipe of the Week: Edamame Salad
This week's recipe comes from one of my trusted Healthline.com blog editors, Carrie Locke. Turns out the bosses are interested in eating healthy too! Seems to be a trend.Carrie says this edamame salad is really easy to make and scores high on the ...
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Newsbites: February 23rd
Not a lot of super relevant nutrition related research made big news this week. But here are a couple items I thought you might find interesting and/or useful.Across the Pacific Ocean the obesity problem is also rearing its ugly head and Thailand ...
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Recipe of the Week: Carrot Apple Salad
I'm a big fan of mixing fruits and vegetables together in salads and other dishes. It helps make the veggies a little more exciting and yummy. Plus you get servings from both when you prepare them together. Since apples and carrots are pretty much...
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Teens and Weight Loss Surgery...hmmm
Have you heard about the newly opened Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery with the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian? I just read about it today in a release on a service I get called Newswise. At this center teens hav...
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Newsbites 7-14 volume 1 - Burger King Trans-fat Free, Teens and Asthma
There has been a lot of foodie news this past week that I couldn't resist writing about. But then I ended up with this reeeeaaaaaallly long post that I wouldn't even want to read through. So i decided to break it up into 3 posts to give your eyes...
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Healthy New Year's Resolutions for Kids & Teens
If your kids haven't made their New Year's resolutions yet, here are some great ones from the American Academy of Pediatrics with a few additions/modifications from me. Preschoolers* I will clean up my toys. * I won't tease the family dog or even ...
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Feed Your Family Right!
Coming to you from Chicago attending The Nutrition News Forecast, a conference for the American Dietetic Association's (ADA) Spokespersons' Program. Great stuff going on here. I was thrilled to discover that my dear friend and colleague, Elisa Zie...
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Day One of Childhood Obesity Conference
Day One of the California Childhood Obesity Conference and we just broke for lunch. Already learning and hearing about programs, initiatives and research to combat this childhood obesity conundrum. First thing this morning a big wig from Sesame Wo...
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Recipe of the Week: Open-Faced Tuna Delight
When I was a kid my sisters and I always looked forward to rainy days because that's when Mom made our favorite recipe "Open-Faced Tuna Delight". I think that's why tuna fish sandwiches are now a comfort food for me as an adult. (You may have a no...
