Kids still as creative as ever? (Credit: © BeTa-Artworks / Fotolia) Research you (might) need to know. Smoke from open-fire cooking associated with children’s lower cognitive skills. Cooking over an indoor fire in the developing world, not the smoker you occasionally fire up in your backyard. Perhaps it was sharing food over an enclosed …
Is organic food really all that better for kids? Yes according to a recent article (Why Organic Especially for Children?) on WebMd. Why? Two reasons: One, children are overexposed to pesticides even if their exposure is within legal limits. Two, children are developing organs to last a lifetime. Due to …
So your kids may complain about the penne with organic spinach or whatever you’re serving up, but they may thank you in years to come as those regular family dinners have a host of health benefits. Pre-teens who eat dinner at least five times a week with most of their …
Emily Bazelon takes on the Family Dinner over at Slate or as she calls it “The Mac-and-Cheese Effect“. She talks about the mysterious relationship between families eating together and children’s well-being. NPR did a recent segment too thanks to a new study out of Brigham Young suggesting mothers and fathers …
Seems kids eat the same weight of food every day according to a study reported by Tara Parker-Pope at her blog, Well, at The New York Times. Penn State University researchers assessed whether children in a daycare eating low-calorie, low-sugar meals and snacks ate the same amount of calories of …