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Encourage Fun and Activity with the CLIF Kid Annual Backyard Game of the Year Contest

We’re big fans of CLIF Kids here at Growing a Green Family. Not only does this company promote healthy snacking and organic food, but each year they encourage outdoor play and activity with many outdoor initiatives, including their amazing Backyard Games Contest. Backyard Games is entering its 3rd year and there’s some new cool stuff to [...]

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Tips for raising a healthy and green eater from birth

This year, I’ve been working on a series about childhood obesity and healthy family food and exercise habits. As I’ve noted previously, when it comes to food habits, it’s extremely hard to change established food habits in your older kids. It’s much more simple to raise kids who eat right from the start. Later we [...]

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More kids stuck indoors than ever before – CLIF Kid’s Backyard Game Contest can help

A new Kelton Research survey reveals some utterly depressing (but not terribly surprising) news – kids today are stuck indoors most of the time and often it’s by choice. The new The Clif Kid Outdoor Play Survey highlights how we REALLY need to act now in order to prevent a generation of screen-bound, inactive, unhealthy [...]

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Confessions of a chubster – a fresh first-hand take on weight issues in America

In case you missed it, my big goal series this year is “A healthy 2012 means childhood obesity in America shouldn’t be taboo.” I’m serious about this issue. Weight, exercise, calories and getting healthy as it relates to kids shouldn’t be taboo. At all. Still, seeing as how all of these same issues are, as [...]

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Is childhood obesity child abuse?

In my opinion there’s a direct link between eco-friendly eating and a healthy fit body. If you truly eat green and healthy plus live green (i.e. get outside into nature and get moving) I think you and your whole family will be healthier. At my house: Today I was talking to my boyfriend Dave about [...]

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Is the obesity epidemic an environmental issue?

In a previous post about fast food toys being banned I said I’d be back with more on healthy eating and the obesity issue. First I thought I should point out some of the connections between obesity and green living… There are some pretty out-there reports that say things like, “People who are overweight are [...]

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Happy Meal Toys Banned – Just One Less Excuse for Poor Parenting

As you may have heard, Santa Clara County just decided to ban those little plastic junk toys that come in kid-sized meals from fast food restaurants, if said meal doesn’t meet specific nutritional standards. The specific nutritional standards that meals must meet are based on federal standards and recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and [...]