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.
We are excited to share with you some new additions to our Heart Month printables for kids page. Free Valentine's Day- Healthy Heart printables, including Chef Solus' Top 10 Healthy Heart Tips for kids PDF (Spanish version)
New Valentine theme w...
Valentine's Day is another holiday celebration that many classrooms, parents and after-school programs will plan to celebrate with kids. It is also a great theme to tie in to promoting a healthy heart to kids and families.Too often holiday celebration...
Let's take a look at the final key message that the USDA wants families to focus on:
Key Message #3: Foods to Reduce
'Lower your sodium (salt) intake.. Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals and choose the foods with the lowe...
We shared information and practical tips for the first key message of the new USDA dietary guidelines earlier this week. Today, let's take a look at the second key message that the USDA wants families to focus on:Key Message #2: Foods to Increase
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Let's take a look at the first message that the USDA wants us to focus on:Key Message #1 Balancing Calories
Enjoy your food, but eat less
Avoid oversized portions
Concept:Calorie balance is the key to preventing weight gain. Weight gain comes fro...
Today was a big day with the release of the new 2010 USDA food guidelines. Every five years the USDA releases and updated version of the Food Guidelines designed to help us eat healthy so that we can avoid heart disease, diabetes and obesity.Here are...
The Grocer Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute have just announced a new front of pack foodlabeling called Nutrition Keys. They developed this new initiative in response to our first Lady, Michelle Obama who met with them last y...
We are excited to share that our blog has been listed in the
50 Best Blogs for Healthy Parenting
We are proud to be featured among other great blogs that are dedicated to helping parents.
We know that parents are busy with so many demand...
Sesame Street introduced four new muppets known as the Superfoods.the new Superfood muppets are:
banana
whole wheat bun
low fat cheese
stalk of broccoli
The Superfoods muppets were part of a skit called "Try, Try Again."The skit had Elmo trying...
I was very excited to read about new research that shows the use of video games promoted positive behavioral changes in children that participated in the study.133 children aged 10-12 participated in the study. Kids were put in two groups. One group ...
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