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Healthy Eating for Healthy Living.

As parents, we’re all familiar with the struggles of getting our children to eat green veggies instead of purple, pink and blue sugary cereals. We may also be familiar with the worry over making sure a teen eats at all.

For information on proper nutrition for kids of all ages, strategies for getting kids to eat their veggies, and eating disorders in teens, DrGreene’s Eating and Nutrition Topic Center is just what the doctor ordered.

Pregnancy Nutrition
- Toxoplasmosis
  Toxoplasma gondii is a one-celled parasite that sometimes causes devastating effects on unborn children if their ...»
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  Full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome occurs in one or two out of 1000 babies. Babies born to heavy drinkers have ...»
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Infant Nutrition
- Breast to Bottle – Nipple to Cup
  Weaning means gradually getting used to a change. Dr. Greene talks about the process of weaning from breast to ...»
- Pyloric Stenosis
  Pyloric stenosis can occur in boys or girls, but it is much ...»
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Preschool Nutrition
- Iron Deficiency
  The most common reason for a child to be anemic is an inadequate supply of iron. Iron is a mineral that your body ...»
- Olestra
  Is Olestra, a non-absorbable fat, really safe? Shouldn’t we avoid junk food anyway – regardless of how much fat ...»
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Healthy Kids
- Tantrums
  Temper tantrums are expressions of intense, immediate frustration. They occur most frequently at an age when ...»
- Obesity
  Obesity, or over-nutrition, is the generalized accumulation of fat both beneath the skin and throughout the body. ...»
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Teen Nutrition
- Vitamins and Children
  Vitamins are, by definition, compounds necessary in trace amounts for the normal functioning of the human body. ...»
- Childhood Obesity
  Overweight children are not gluttonous or lazy. In fact, many studies have shown that obese children do not eat ...»
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Food Additives and Preservatives
- Eating What The Host Serves
  When I travel, I try to eat and enjoy what my host sets before me, even if it might otherwise make me squeamish. ...»
- Headache
  Headaches are quite common in children. An older child will say, “My head hurts…”A toddler, though, may just act ...»
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Junk Food and Children
- Olive Oil and Baked Treats!
  All too often, yummy baked cakes and cookies get part of their yumminess from margarine or other trans fats. ...»
- The school lunch is fast-food!
  We looked at a typical school lunch menu in yesterday’s post and at the nutritionist’s analysis of fat, protein, ...»
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Organic Foods
- A Global Locavore?
  I would be very interested to know how many of you are making an effort to buy locally produced goods, whether ...»
- More Rice with Less Water
  We are now exactly halfway through the International Water for Life Decade (2005-2015), a designation developed ...»
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Vegetarian Food
- How can I get my child to eat vegetables?
  If you drink coffee, you probably remember the first time you took a taste. It was horrible! How could anyone ...»
- Preserving Rice Biodiversity
  How many different kinds of rice can you name or have you eaten? And no, Uncle Ben’s doesn’t count. It is not a ...»
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Health and Behavior
- Constipation
  When a child is constipated, the stool in the intestines has backed up more than it should. The longer stool sits ...»
- Pomegranate Juice Prevents Early Puberty?
  Recent headlines have trumpeted an exciting study about how pomegranate juice may prove very useful at preventing ...»
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