Articles
Click on the links below to read some of my magazine articles:
PARENTS
- How to Raise a Healthy Eater (in a Junk Food World)
- 15 Pregnancy Power Foods
- Eating for Two: Healthy Pregnancy Nutrition Tips
- Raise a Healthy Eater
- Feed Your Baby’s Brain During Pregnancy
- Break Your Kid’s Bad Food Habits
- Get Fit After Baby
PREVENTION
- What’s Your Diet Doing this Weekend?
- Outsmart Your Cravings
- Go Power Shopping
- Eat for Perfect Health
- Do-It-Yourself Diet
- What’s Your Nutrition IQ?
FAMILY CIRCLE
- Multiple Choice: The Vitamin Debate
- Slim Chance: Diet Pills…Separate the Help from the Hype
- The Incredible Shrinking Doctor’s Appointment
- Hidden Health Risks
- 7 Screening Tests You Should Never Skip
FITNESS
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Dear Sally;
I enjoyed your article in the Philly inquirer this morning (I was eating cholesterol reducing corn muffins while I read).
One thing that is very different in raising my children vs. growing up in the late 60’s is portion control. But it was not called that! First, we had to ask for a snack . SO if I asked,”Mom can I have a cookie?” If the answer was affirmative it went like this,” You may have 2.”
My mom, being a child of the depression, was probably trying to be frugal and also have cookies available for her other five children. It wasn’t until college that I ever heard of people eating entire sleeves of cookies in one sitting.
But in raising my children, we definitely have a supersize me attitude. We are fortunate to have three normal size children (saving # 2 who is now sporting the freshman 15), and one underweight one.
Suggestions for a new article: Moms like me with the underweight child taking AD/HD meds like concerta. They have no appetite. Getting the calories in is a daily grind, and
you want to maximize them. It is so awful to get the BMI letter from the school each year,”Johnny is on the 4th percentile for BMI…”
THoughts on HOW to maximize each bite would be appreciated. There are many of us out there–I know it is kind of countercultural, but we are there.
Thanks!
Maria