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Even if your child is one of the millions who doesn’t get enough calcium in their diet, a new study shows it’s not too late to increase bone density. The study published in the August issue of ‘Bone’, found increasing dietary calcium in the diet has a significant impact on bone development.

We eat like hobbits in this house, complete with a first and second breakfast—cereal to start, and oatmeal, sometimes with fruit, a little later. Cheerios and oats are pretty healthy, I reckon, but sometimes I wonder if Tommy is going to eventually “rebel” as I did.

Get your teen off the video games and doing something else with this list of activities for techie kids. Holy moly, some cereals are made up of more than 50% sugar. So instead here are some alternative breakfast choices. California now requires fast food restaurants to display calorie information.

Since the news about melamine-tainted milk in China hit the media a couple of weeks ago,  I don’t think a day has passed without some new revelation about this heart-sickening problem. Much has been revealed about the scope of the contamination and the ramifications in China since my initial post on babygooroo.

credits: Gary Sloan Sisters Sisters The jury is in. Diet and lifestyle affect cancer risk. The World Cancer Research Fund together with the American Institute for Cancer Research gave new meaning to the words, Top Ten, with the release, November, 2007 of the second expert report on cancer prevention, a follow-up to the first report published in 1997.

I’m learning something completely new to me.  I have made what I thought were healthy meals.  The goal has always been a vegetable, a salad, a starch (rice or potatoes or pasta) and a meat of some kind.  Not bad right?  We do desserts on the rare occasion - usually pudding or baked apples.

Car or pedestrian — How we can follow objects with our eyes October 03rd, 2008 | Category: Health News When an object moves fast, we follow it with our eyes: our brain correspondingly calculates the speed of the object and adapts our eye movement to it. that in itself is an huge achievement, yet our brain can do even more than that.

And we wonder why there's an obesity epidemic? Kellogg's Honey Smacks (which actually contain more sugar and corn syrup than honey), and Post Golden Crisp cereal each have much sugar per three-quarter cup serving as a glazed doughnut from Dunkin'...

For all the adolescents who are overweight and really want to do something about it, the first suggestion is: try cutting out one calorie-full but nutrition-poor food that you're crazy about. If you can't stop eating chocolate candy bars or big dishes of ice cream or those wonderful cookies—or whatever is your favorite bad-habit dish, you're probably not ready to do very much about your weight.

What Sorts of Herbs are Used in Weight Loss? October 02nd, 2008 | Category: Health News Weight loss herbal pills are usually synonymous with one specific ingredient, and that is unfortunately caffeine or some other sort of stimulant that some humans, like myself may be sensitive to.  You can’t