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Is the food you feed your kids safe? I mean, look at all the recalls (remember the tomatoes and peanut butter?), the peanut allergies, the lactose intolerance, the eggs one mom fed her 9-month-old daughter that turned into a major health scare. Says Redbook magazine: “According to a 2008 report from the Centers for Disease [...]

Do you bribe your kids with food? Shouldn’t do that, says former FDA commissioner David A. Kessler, a physician and author of “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite,” because this subtle message about food can cancel out all of your efforts to get your kiddos to eat healthy. Your relationship [...]

About one-third of a child’s total daily calories comes from pizza, desserts and snacks, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. And since we know snacks make up a large portion of kids’ diets, it seems we ought to make them as healthy as possible. The experts at “Kaboose” name a handful of [...]