healthy kids

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]