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Health Food Junk

July 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · kids, Wellness

The other morning as I was walking my 9-year-old daughter to summer camp at the local recreation center she begged me to stop and buy her something to eat. She was hungry, she complained. Since she had refused the smoothie of fresh berries and homemade yogurt I’d made for her that morning, I wasn’t in […]

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It’s Not the Milk, It’s the Lactose

May 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blog, kids

Just poking around the lunch room at my daughter’s charter school here in the District of Columbia I happened to look at the nutritional information on the back of an 8-ounce container of chocolate milk. Milk is a health food for children, right? Builds strong muscles and bones, right? Imagine my dismay when I saw that […]

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