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No-one’s going to deny the huge problem childhood obesity poses. But what’s the solution? I recently came across some interesting ideas from Pamela Cytrynbaum, in her article for Psychology Today. She says, often when her daughter starts at a new place, she will write a short note, and place it into her lunchbox. It goes something like this:…

Tasting parties, junior cooking classes and yes, Popeye cartoons can help boost vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition and Dietetics. 26 kindergarten children, aged four to five, participated in the eight week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after…

England may not be able to beat the US in soccer, but they are trending towards leaving them in the dust when it comes to overweight kids. Ditto for Spain and Italy. Researchers discovered that British children were spending double the amount on candy compared to their counterparts on the other side of the pond – $570 USD a…

Soda Head Here’s your typical school lunch: over-boiled green beans, Tater Tots, Salisbury “steak,” and your choice of chocolate, strawberry, or plain milk – oh, and that plastic foil-sealed cup of “fruit” juice. How yummy, why don’t you just cut out the middle man and dump it all directly into the toilet? Maybe that’s what Washington D.C. is thinking. Starting…

The Llama Butchers “I’ve had it with these bleep-bleep’n peanuts, on this bleep-bleep’n plane!” Yeah, “Peanuts on a Plane” isn’t as cool as Samuel L. Jackson going all Pulp Fiction on Snakes on a Plane, but today nuts are just about as evil as snakes. And since now a kid can drop dead from eating a single nut, some concerned…