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It’s okay if your one year-old doesn’t drink cow’s milk.

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Choosing a Multivitamin For Kids: Tips to Help Parents Make a Decision

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A Simple Way to Add More Veggies to Kids’ Meals

For some kids, eating more vegetables is easier said than done. Today’s post is for the children who don’t cheerfully devour a wide variety of plant-based foods (fruit, vegetables, etc). It’s a simple and tiny step that can hopefully be included into the meals they do enjoy eating. Briefly? It’s adding pureed foods to existing…

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What We Need to Know About Added Sugar and Kids

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Food Dyes In Our Child’s Diet

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4 Health Benefits of Eating Meals as a Family

What if there were something families could do to improve everyone’s health? To reduce risky behavior in their teenagers? To be more mentally healthy overall?  There is something.  I’m referring to the family meal, a time when people gather to eat together. Shared family meals have many health benefits, both physical and emotional. In recent…

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Zinc While Breastfeeding: Is Zicam safe?

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6 Benefits to Breastfeeding Beyond 6 Months

Feeding babies can feel complicated. However, there are a few recommendations to make things a little simpler. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organization recommend exclusive breastfeeding of infants for at least six months and continued breastfeeding (along with nutritious complementary foods) up through 2 years, or as long as both…