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Worried that your toddler isn’t getting enough chocolate in her diet?
You’re in luck! Formula company Mead-Johnson recently introduced chocolate and vanilla-flavored versions of their Enfagrow formulas for toddlers.
“What’s next, genetically modifying moms to produce chocolate breast milk?” writes New York University nutrition professor and author Marion Nestle in The Atlantic.
Nutritionists have complained for years about toddler formula because after a child’s first birthday, food should replace milk as the primary source of nutrients. And the milk your child is going to drink certainly doesn’t need to be flavored with sugar and cocoa.
Yesterday, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of killing the Happy Meal.
The five-member board in Silicon Valley voted 3 to 2 in favor of prohibiting fast food restaurants from offering prizes and toys that lure children into ordering high-calorie, high-sodium, high-fat meals. After a contentious meeting, where parents argued against parents, and health officials argued against restaurant owners, the board agreed to the ban.
Once the ordinance gets final approval at a meeting in May, businesses will have 90 days to come up with alternative meals that meet the board’s guidelines. Or they can quit offering toys. Continue reading »
The people in charge of our school lunches are having a tough week, as this New York Times story points out. First, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (which you should be watching, it’s awesome) tackled an elementary school in Huntington, W.Virginia. His attempts to get the lunch ladies to cook healthy foods, and to get the kids to eat it, were simply heartbreaking if you care about feeding kids well. Continue reading »
Mother’s milk is the ultimate super-food, containing just about everything a baby needs–except Vitamin D. Why? Humans originated along the equator and abundant sunshine originally provided infants with all of the bone-fortifying vitamin they required. Modern-day bambinos, however, could use a little help. According to a Pediatrics study, 5% to 37% of infants require a supplement to meet the American Academy of Pediatrics standard for Vitamin D: 400 international units a day.
Kids who eat school lunches have higher bad cholesterol and consume twice as many fatty meats and sugary drinks, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Children who purchased lunches were more likely to be obese, at 39 percent, while 24 percent of those who brought lunches from home were obese. Other numbers were more worrisome: lunch-buyers ate fatty meats at much higher rates (26 percent versus 11 percent); and drank far more sugary beverages (36 percent versus 14 percent). Continue reading »
Have you had a chance to read Michael Pollan’s latest book, “Food Rules” yet? If not, you’d better put it on reserve at the library or head to the bookstore because it’s getting rave reviews all over the place. Longtime New York Times nutrition writer Jane Brody (who wrote a pretty great book on nutrition herself) even called it the most intelligent, sensible and simple-to-follow book she’s seen in her more than 4 decades writing about health.
That’s a pretty ringing endorsement, given that Pollan is a journalist, not a nutrionist. Of course, his entertaining, intelligently humorous style and ability to coin phrases like “edible foodlike substance” to describe a great deal of what’s in the grocery store these days probably has a lot to do with his popularity. Interested in getting a little taste of “Food Rules”? Check out our excerpt from the book here and a 2006 interview with Pollan here. Continue reading »
Remember a few years ago when that study came out that French fries were the favored vegetable of toddlers and preschoolers, and, in fact, were sometimes the only vegetable kids get in a day?
Well, that study has been updated, and the news is better, but not great. The Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study, or FITS, found that while kids still don’t get enough fruits and vegetables, there’s some good news as well. Continue reading »
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