Preschool Nutrition
Food Allergies A Bigger Problem Than Previously Reported
Dr. Greene's take on the increase in food allergies... If it seems like nowadays there's someone in every school classrooms with a food allergy, that's because almost 1 in 12 kids today have food alle…
Learning Junk Food in School: Advertising to Kids
About half of all middle schools and high schools in the US permit advertising of candy, fast-food restaurants, and/or sodas at school! This practice is most common in Ohio (nearly 70 percent of schoo…
Helping Healthy Food Compete with Fast Food
Dr. Greene's take on healthy food vs. fast food... Any parent who has ever seen the reaction of a 3-year-old to the idea of heading to McDonald's for lunch won't be surprised by the results of a recen…
Preschool French Fries and Breast Cancer
The more servings of French fries that women had eaten way back when they were preschoolers, the more likely they were to develop breast cancer as adults, according to a Harvard study in the August 10…
Obese in Preschool
More than 10 percent of American kids between the ages of 2 and 5 are already overweight or obese, according to the January 2005 annual statistics report of the American Heart Association. This number…
Childhood Obesity and Cancer
Dr. Greene's take on childhood obesity and cancer... The heavier kids are during the toddler, preschool, and school years, the greatest the chance they have of developing cancer as young adults, accor…
Long-term Positive Impact of Kids Eating Fresh (Organic) Fruit
Could it be that fruit eaten in childhood has a lifelong protective effect? Of course, this would take a long time to find out. Thousands of families in England and Scotland were studied in 1937 and 1…
Healthy Eating, Part III – The five greatest motivators for preschool children to eat healthy foods
Let's get practical with my five greatest motivators for preschool children to eat healthy foods. (more…)…
Healthy Eating, Part II – What foods do children need? What foods should be avoided?
When my son Kevin was about 3 years old, he spied a green pea. He picked it up between his fingers and rolled it over. It looked good! He then pushed the pea up his nose. Interesting. Vegetables are f…