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.
The proposed nutrition guidelines for school meals has been released and for the first time, it addresses sodium (sodium is found in table salt).The plan calls for a gradual reduction in sodium levels over the next decade to:
740 milligrams per lunc...
As part of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, the USDA was required to release new nutrition standards for all schools participating in the government sponsored school meal programs.The USDA was tasked with creating new nutritional standards that would:...
School is completely back in session and some parents have been asking when I see changes in my child's school lunch program?This is a very good question. President Obama signed the $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act at the end of last year. ...
It is the middle of the month and with busy lives, perhaps you never got around to setting healthy goals with your child.Perhaps setting goals is not your thing. Here is another way to make healthier choices part of your family's routine. Try doing o...
As we continue our series on weight loss, lets review the type of weight loss programs.
>There are two different types of weight-loss programs—clinical and nonclinical. Knowing what a good program will offer and what to look for may help you choose a ...
We talked about how to decrease some of the calorie intake, now about the other side of the losing weight equation: increasing calorie output (burning up fat)
Remember, when you eat more calories (food) than your body needs, it will store the e...
Many of us, we will join millions of people pledging our New Years Resolution to lose weight.
Because this will affect many of parents, we wanted to share some weight loss information to help you get started.
Losing weight is really not that hard...
It is the New Year and many of you are busy deciding your New Year's resolutions.But don't forget to involve the kids. This is a great opportunity to talk to children about healthy choices and what habits in their lives they can modify to be healthier...
Here are the printables, learning pages and worksheets that parents, teachers, health care professionals and communities printed and shared the most with children in 2010.
All of our printables are free and available in English or Spanish! Click...
2010 was a wonderful year for Nourish Interactive and for increased awareness and improvements in childhood nutrition for all children- we want to thank you for your support! It is exciting and rewarding to see more interest in childhood nutrition a...
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