Low-Carb Diets & Toddlers
When a parent’s diet plan turns dangerous.
When a parent’s diet plan turns dangerous.
It was three years ago when I realized my daughter needed to go on a gluten-free diet. Pretty much everything my child loved to eat, she couldn’t have anymore.
Our family is most definitely composed of omnivores, with a heavy carnivore bent when it comes to cheeseburgers. However, my teen daughter is a vegetarian. This is how we make it work.
An older toddler is refusing dinner after being well throughout the day. However, he is going to bed and waking up ravenous. How can his parents help him without succumbing to this dinnertime power struggle?
Kids can be picky about their food — but making your toddler a separate meal is not the answer. Here’s how to teach your toddler to eat what she’s served.
A mom needs a realistic tactical plan for implementing Ellyn Satter’s feeding philosophy to family dinners.
Problem: Grandma likes stuffing little Susie full of junk food all day long. Double Problem: You’re not actually little Susie’s mom.
My baby suddenly won’t eat anything from a spoon. NOW WHAT?
An young adventurous eater is starting to follow his picky eater older brother’s lead and their mom is concerned. What can she do to nip this issue in the bud?
I do my best to model the kind of attitude I would like my daughter to have about her body. However, mine isn’t the only opinion she hears.
Our food supply has changed dramatically since the late 1990s with a proliferation of genetically-modified proteins, antibiotics, chemical additives and preservatives. At the same time we have seen a dramatic rise in children’s allergies, asthma and ADHD. Hmm….
A mom wants to know what she should expect as typical behavior and expectations from her toddler when eating out at a restaurant. Amalah chimes in with effective strategies for a good overall experience, as well.
By popular demand, Amalah shares with us the homemade foods that are most popular with her kids and easiest to make from scratch. First up, transforming sweet potatoes into tots and a delicious side serving of mash.
Introducing solid foods to your baby? Here is a simple guide to making fruit and vegetable purees at home. It’s easy peasy.
You think that you don’t like tofu, but that might be because you don’t know how to coax great texture out of it. This simple tofu preparation will convert you.
A mom is ready to face her toddler’s picky eating habits but her first challenge is keeping her in her high chair. How does she do that successfully?
Some things you may have wondered about your food but were too afraid to ask.
A child has always eaten very little but now he’s fallen off the growth charts and isn’t keeping up physically and socially with his peers. What should the mom do when her pediatrician insists everything is “fine”?
Women who choose to follow a vegetarian or vegan diet during pregnancy need to take extra care to get all the right nutrients.
An expat mom is trying to avoid power struggles with her family-by-marriage and now toddler son (too) over the amount and regularity of sweets and unhealthy foods being served in her new and adopted home country.