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Nutrition+Food

Red Pill Readers: How Do You Handle the Springtime Candy Onslaught?

Valentine’s Day and Easter — other than Halloween, nothing rivals these two springtime holidays for sheer terror in the heart of a sugar-averse Red Pill Parent.  My household is by no means ‘clean’ of the offending substance, but I do try to not get carried along by the prevailing cultural insistence that these two holidays represent [...]

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Talking To Our Children About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Today, my dear friend Ann Ruckert, a musician, composer, arranger and educator, posted the following on her blog at www.annruckert.com. While she may have been born at an earlier time than many of us current parents, she is the embodiment of a Red Pill Parent. A conversation that I had with her several years back [...]

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Oh, This Bloody Coke Thing

Consider if you will: a public elementary school has a fundraiser for Juvenile Diabetes.  This school offers reduced-fat and whole wheat items on its lunch menu.   Its students are asked to bring a healthy snack and water to school each day.  Some of its students have the opportunity to earn play money for good [...]

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Tips From “Food Rules” – Michael Pollan’s New Book & Going Gluten-Free

Nutritionist, activist and author, Michael Pollan, has a new book which distills many of the ideas presented his earlier works, “The Omnivoire’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” into simple food rules. These are wonderful rules to teach to children of any age. Whether kids follow [...]

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Germs, Part Deux

I am so bloody guilty of thinking short term about food – it’s almost like a mental illness.  It’s certainly like an eating disorder.  I might know, intellectually, without a doubt, that I shouldn’t eat something (the fish sandwich from Long John Silver’s for instance, which I inexplicably crave on cold, rainy days).  But there’s [...]

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Germophobia-phobia

Lately, I can’t seem to get through an issue of The Week without coming across something worth sharing.  This time, it’s about germs – a topic extremely relevant to parenting, no?  In the December 11th issue, on the Health & Science page, there’s a little bit entitled “More germs, please.”  Now I am decidedly a [...]

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Will Your Kids Still Be KooKoo For Cocoa Puffs?

From CNBC article dated Dec. 9, 2009: “The Rudd Center recently published a study that found the least-healthy breakfast cereals are the most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children. It also found that General Mills markets to children more than any other cereal company, and six of 10 least-healthy cereals in its study were [...]

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