A few months ago I shared a study that illustrated one way to get kids to eat more vegetables: hide the vegetables in other foods by adding pureed vegetables to foods like zucchini bread, pasta with tomato sauce, and chicken noodle casserole. Since small children tend [...]
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Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: My question is really how much should I weigh? I’m a girl. Almost 13. I’m 5′3″ – almost 5′4″, and my weight is different every day! It’s from 114-118! It changes so much! Can you tell me why, as well?
Just as in the United States, kids in Australia eat a lot of fast food – one recent study estimates that 25% of school children in Australia eat fast food at least once a week, with that number increasing to 43% in adolescents. That’s actually [...] It probably won’t surprise you that kids between 3 and 16 tend to prefer sweet and fatty foods, and parents know that smaller children often prefer familiar foods that they like and are resistant to new foods. That said, left to their own devices children [...] Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: I am currently caring for my dad who uses Coumadin and is diabetic. I am looking for menus/recipes with regards to his conditions. Menus would be helpful, as I work during the day.
We’ve reviewed chicken nuggets a few times, and looking back over the reviews I can’t find any that we thought were worth eating. While I am not a fan of convenience foods, I do realize that people are going to eat them, but it seems [...] As I noted last week, small children won’t eat what they don’t like, and vegetables are at the top of the list of things that small children don’t like and won’t eat. So it’s probably no surprise that children don’t get enough vegetables in their [...] Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: A new school year is coming and with it concerns about sending healthy lunches for my middle schooler. Any suggestions would be great! (They do not have any way to heat their lunches).
Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: Is there a substitute for red wine? Perhaps grape juice made from grapes rather than concentrate? I do not drink alcohol at all and would not do so even for the benefits of red wine.
A few years ago I reported on two studies that indicated thatchildren eat more when they’re watching TV while they’re eating and that adults who watched less television ate less and burned more calories than their peers who watched all the TV they wanted. Clearly television has [...] |
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