I attended an intriguing lecture about early feeding, sponsored by Nestle (Gerber baby products) but was not paid to write this post. As a mother of three, I believe whole-heartedly in the importance of early feeding, and Gerber supports research about early feeding and offers some excellent educational tools [...]
I caught up with Melissa Halas-Liang, mom, dietitian and founder of the popular children’s nutrition site SuperKidsNutrition.com to ask her about her new free app, FoodLeap and her thoughts on helping kids eat healthier. Can you share with my readers, the new research on incentivizing healthy food choices [...]
A recent news story covered changes in school food service to improve public health and the health of our children. Partly spurred by the Let's Move campaign and our nation's focus on childhood obesity, school districts are making changes to attempt to offer healthier snack foods to our [...]
I recently read, with interest, an article about how mathematicians are becoming involved in obesity research, hoping to find answers to our nation's public health problem. Carson Chow is an investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and a mathematician and physicist. He [...]