Family Nutrition Blog
Our blog ‘Nourishing Thoughts’ keeps families informed on current nutrition news, fun kid-friendly nutrition tips to encourage healthy food, nutrition, and exercise choices, nutrition articles, and interactive tools for parents. Our healthy nutrition blog is for parents, teachers, and everyone who is interested in kids' health and nutrition.
Often, we will have weekly themes about healthy habits. The topic is discussed on Mondays, we follow up with a fun informative infographic that provides key facts about the topic, finishing up on Friday with some great materials and resources to use to bring that topic to home, school or wherever you are working with children to promote healthier habits! Enjoy.
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About Maggie
I am a nurse and a mother of two. I am also the founder of Nourish Interactive. I am very concerned about the health and well being of our children. I started the Nourishing Thoughts Blog so that I could help parents keep up on the latest trends in children’s nutrition and exercise.
I know that much like reading and writing is the foundation for learning, nutrition is the foundation for healthy children. But with so many new studies, products and trends constantly being reported it is hard to keep up. I just want to make it a little easier for parents by doing some of the legwork and providing you with up to date information.
This post shares some helpful information, resources and tools for parents concerned about their child's weight from our website, and latest news about the organizations and initiatives to help support parents and prevent childhood obesity. Plus, infor...
Today is CASA Family Day! A Day to Eat Dinner with Your ChildrenTM We are sharing some of our favorite links to make it easier for busy families to celebrate and enjoy family day and have a fun dinner together!Sometimes I am asked, what is the one mos...
Why Play? | Fun Play Ideas | Why Family Dinner? | Family Dinner Day Tips |There are some fun events coming up this week for families and kids! Saturday is Worldwide Day of Play and Monday is Family Day , a day to enjoy family dinner together!Learn mor...
The USDA continues their healthy promotion and recognition program! This summer they held a contest for the best stories and photos promoting Summer food service programs.
The competition was extremely tough as they had over 100 contest sub...
September 26 is National Family Day. One of the best ways to celebrate it is to make family dinners a daily event.
You are teaching your children some important healthy habits at a younger age. Family time is so important and there are many studies ...
Keep kids focused on adding more fruits and vegetables to their plate.Benefits of fruits and vegetables
Fruits and vegetables are very high in a number of nutrients that most kids do not get enough of.—vitamins A, C and K, potassium, fiber and magnes...
Football season is here and many families (including mine) will take part in some fun tailgating parties.One of the challenges in tailgating party that goes for several hours is food safety. Here are some Referee Tips to keep your food free from bacte...
New study shows that nagging parents does work. This is probably not a surprise for anyone that has kids! Sometimes it is just easier to give in, especially with hectic schedules.But I found this very interesting:
John Hopkins School of Public Health...
The food and advertising industries are aggressively lobbying Congress to kill proposed voluntary guidelines for marketing to children. According to Campaign for a Commercial-free Childhood (CCFC), they’ve hired high-powered lobbyists; flown in company...
This month is national childhood obesity awareness month and there is a lot of focus on how to help overweight children. But the fact is that most of our children, over 85% don't eat the recommended amounts of healthy foods like fruits and vegetables ...
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