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Healthy Eating Habits

Healthy eating habits, unlike a diet, can help your kids avoid obesity, lose weight, or stay at a healthy weight throughout their whole life.

CHILD-1 Diet and Nutrition Recommendations

The CHILD-1 diet and nutrition recommendations to limit added sugar and high-fat foods and eat more high-fiber foods can help kids who are overweight, have high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, but are also a good idea for other kids to help stay healthy and avoid all of those problems.

Restaurants - Eating Healthy for Kids

As hard a time as some parents have getting their kids to eat healthy at home, it can seem almost impossible when you take them out to eat, especially if they usually choose foods from the kids' menu. Learn how to help your kids eat healthy when eating out at restaurants.

Cheese Nutrition Facts

Kids often eat a lot of cheese, but reviewing cheese nutrition facts, you can see that it may not be a great substitute for milk.

Protein Rich Foods

Review common protein rich foods that your kids may be eating and learn if your children are getting enough protein in their diet.

Whole Grains - Whole Wheat Bread and Whole Grain Cereals

According to the MyPlate guidelines, at least half of the grains that kids eat each day should be whole grains, such as 100% whole wheat bread. Learn how to choose and encourage your kids to eat more whole grain foods, including brown rice, whole grain pasta and whole grain cereals.

Eating Less - Using Portion Control and Mind Control to Eat Less Food

Learn how to use portion control and mind control to help your kids eat less, as eating less is an important part of most healthy eating habits to ward off childhood obesity.

Healthy Eating - Healthy Eating Plan for Kids

A healthy eating plan that you can use to help your kids reach the food pyramid goals and recommendations for eating fruit, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and drinking milk.

Food Coloring

Food coloring and food dyes have been used throughout history, although until recently, most food coloring was natural and didn't include the artificial food dyes that are commonly used today. It is this artificial food coloring that is causing some controversy now, being blamed for causing ADHD and other behavior problems. Learn if you should avoid foods with artificial food coloring.

Foods High in Salt

Avoiding foods high in salt is not on top of the list for most parents, but maybe it should when you consider the possible link between obesity and high salt diets and the risk of high blood pressure.

High Fiber Foods

Review these lists of high fiber foods to find healthy foods for your child, and learn which foods are good sources of fiber, including many fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans), breads, and cereals.

Food High in Potassium

Potassium is an important mineral that some parents look to increase in their children's diet, especially if they start complaining of things like growing pains. Learn which foods are high in potassium to help make sure your kids are getting enough of this important mineral in their diet.

Food Allergies

Food allergies affect up to 6% of children and can cause serious and even life threatening reactions. Learn about allergic reactions, the most common foods that cause allergies in children (eggs, milk, peanuts, soy and wheat), having multiple allergies and about food labeling to avoid foods with ingredients that your child is allergic to.

Probiotics for Kids

Probiotics seem like they are the next "new thing" in infant and child nutrition. Should you give your child probiotics as a supplement, from yogurt, or infant formula?

Healthy Snacks for Kids

In addition to their three regular meals, kids often get quite a few calories from the snacks they eat throughout the day. Make sure your kids are eating healthy snacks, including low-fat, low-calorie foods such as fresh fruits and raw vegetables.

Fiber - Fiber Recommendations for Kids

Fiber is an important part of a healthy diet and most experts recommend that both children and adults eat a high fiber diet. Learn how much fiber your kids should be getting in their diet each day and about finding foods high in fiber.

Healthy Lunches for Kids

Learn how to encourage your kids to eat a healthy lunch at school, including lunch ideas for your child's lunch box that encourage good eating habits.

Folate - Folate Rich Foods

Folate is an important vitamin, which most parents are aware of because of the association of low folate levels with premature babies and birth defects. Of course, kids need folate too. Learn about folate rich foods, so that you can make sure your kids are getting enough folate in their diet.

Fast Food - Fast Food at Home

But even those parents who avoid going to fast food restaurants too often typically overlook the fact that their kids eat too much fast food at home, including frozen pizza, hot dogs, french fries, fruit juice, and soda. Learn how to eat healthier meals at home and avoid fast food at home.

Whole Foods

Eating more whole foods is a good way to replace many of the processed snacks and foods that have a lot of extra sugar, fat (including trans fat), salt, and other things added to them and a lot of good things taken out, like fiber.

Junk Food

It is generally recognized that kids eat too much junk food, which is likely contributing to the current childhood obesity epidemic. Learn how to recognize and avoid junk food from your child's diet.

Healthy Food

As parents work to avoid junk food, they often struggle to find alternative foods for their kids to eat. Learn to choose healthy food for your kids to eat.

Printable Food Diary

A food diary can be a great way to keep track of the calories your kids are eating, especially if they are overweight, and to make sure that they are getting enough fruits, vegetables, vitamins, and minerals, etc., from all of the different food groups.

Calories - Calories in Food

Although you usually shouldn't have to count calories each and every day, it can be helpful to know about the calories in the foods your kids eat. This is especially important if your child is already overweight.

Understanding Child Nutrition

Taking some time to understand the basics of child nutrition, from newborns to teens, can help you avoid common mistakes, make healthy choices, and teach your kids healthy eating habits.