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Health & Wellness

How body weight and calories work

December 21, 2011

This year, instead of green goals, I’m looking at the pressing child obesity epidemic and healthy lifestyle choices for families. Soon, I’ll have some tips about how to raise an active, healthy eater for life. That said, before we go there, let’s look at a quick primer about how body weight and calories works. This [...]

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My son disqualifies me from mentioning childhood obesity

December 16, 2011

As you may have noticed, I’m writing a series on the childhood obesity epidemic and family health related to food choices and exercise. After I posted, signs your child may be overweight, I got an email from an individual who apparently noticed a picture of my son on the Growing a Green Family Facebook page, [...]

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Why U.S. parents are in denial about childhood weight issues

December 15, 2011

Instead of green goals for 2012, this year, I’m working on a series that addresses healthy lifestyle goals and choices, along with the growing problem of overweight kids and teens. In the last post in this series we looked at how most parents are in extreme denial about childhood weight issues. In this post, we’ll look at [...]

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Majority of parents underestimate severity of their child’s weight problem

December 14, 2011

Instead of green goals for 2012, this year, I’m working on a series that addresses healthy lifestyle goals and choices, along with the growing problem of overweight kids and teens. In this post, we’ll look at how parents deal with this issue when it involves their own children. The most important influence in your child’s life [...]

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Is it really that dangerous for kids to be overweight?

December 13, 2011

According to major health organizations, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. When I’ve brought up childhood weight or obesity in the past, often I’m attacked by parents or other individuals who think I shouldn’t have brought the topic up at all. As I’ve noted before, weight, and child weight in [...]

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Many pediatricians fail to discuss childhood weight issues with parents

December 12, 2011

Instead of tackling green goals this year, I’m focusing on healthy weight issues for kids. One reason why is because I recently read about a disturbing trend – doctor who are keeping mum when it comes to weight issues affecting kids and teens. The new research, published Dec. 5 in the journal Archives of Pediatrics [...]

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Signs your child may be overweight

December 11, 2011

If you’re concerned about your child’s health, then knowing if they’re at a healthy weight is important. Weight is not all that matters, of course. For one thing, kids are always growing and changing, so sure, some do grow into their size. For example an overly slender child may fill out in his teen years [...]

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A healthy 2012 means childhood obesity in America shouldn’t be taboo

December 11, 2011

2012 is quickly approaching. Usually I do a series on green goals for the new year, but after reading the latest data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and a new survey that shows doctors are ignoring childhood weight issues, I’ve decided to go a different way this year, and do a series on [...]

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Organic Holiday Herbs & Spices Can Keep You Healthy

November 8, 2011

Organic herbs and spices are a perfect accompaniment for your green Thanksgiving or Christmas feast this year, but herbs and spices add much more than flavor to your meals – they also may result in a healthier family. The holidays are hectic, and colds and other illnesses may attack when you’re stressed and your defenses are [...]

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Green your take-out food experience

October 16, 2011

Today is Blog Action Day 2011. This year’s topic is food. In America, people have a huge addiction to take-out food, which creates quite a trash issue. Paper or plastic bags, wrapped plastic silverware, straws, paper cups, plastic or Styrofoam containers and more trash, makes take-out food, not so very eco-friendly. Plus, most of this [...]