Healthy Family Dinner Recipes: 5 Step Beef With Vegetables

This is a family favorite around our house, and it’s sure to be a hit in yours too! And what’s even better is that this exceptionally tasty Beef with Vegetables recipe leaves you with a few extra ingredients you can use in not one, but two amazing and healthy recipes this week. Ingredients...

Small Changes Can Reduce the Risk of Childhood Obesity

Small Changes Can Reduce the Risk of Childhood Obesity With school, activities and work pulling families in different directions, adding healthy food and exercise to your busy lifestyle can seem overwhelming. However you don’t have to take on major changes all at once, and starting early will save you from problems down...

How to Combat Childhood Obesity: A Patient’s Testimony

How to Combat Childhood Obesity: A Patient’s Testimony Obesity is an epidemic that impacts roughly 17% of American children (or 12.7 million) and adolescents aged 2—19 years.[1] Both parents and children need to understand that obesity is a disease that can be overcome through nutrition and physical activity. Although several factors contribute...

5 Tasty Tips Take the “Boo” Out of Sugary Halloween Treats

5 Tasty Tips Take the “Boo” Out of Sugary Halloween Treats Halloween is a favorite holiday for most children, but it can easily turn into sugar overload on a day that’s filled with parties and trick or treating. There is no reason to completely restrict fun foods. They’re fine on special occasions...

Ask Dr. K: Are Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Obesity?

Ask Dr. K: Are Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Obesity? Recently a behavioral neuroscientist at Perdue University published an article linking the consumption of artificially sweetened drinks and obesity. This is a complicated issue and the article leaves us with no clear answers. As a pediatrician that sees evidence of childhood obesity every...

Gluten Sensitivity On The Rise – Is Gluten So Bad?

Gluten Sensitivity On The Rise – Is Gluten So Bad? There is a growing drumbeat blaming all sorts of digestive problems to the ingestion of gluten and naming a gluten-free diet as the cure of all maladies. Doctors are seeing a growing number of patients who have non-celiac gluten sensitivity. They suffer...

Transform Your Child’s Eating Habits in 3 Steps

Transform Your Child’s Eating Habits in 3 Steps As a child I remember playing with toys because they were colorful and looked interesting or “cool”. Now as a mother I want to take that into consideration when preparing fun but healthy snacks for my daughter. Follow these three steps to transform your...