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Family meals allow parents and children to communicate, prepare and share healthy foods. Children who frequently share meals with their families have better nutrition and eating behaviors, such as consuming more vegetables and less fast food. Also, their parents exhibit fewer dieting behaviors for weight control and less disordered eating patterns due to more frequent …

Dark green vegetables (DGVs) are rich in vitamins C and K, beta carotene, carotenoids, folate, and flavonoids, all of which are essential nutrients for growing children. DGVs include fresh, canned, or frozen vegetables such as spinach, kale, collards, and broccoli. Children typically show low preferences for vegetables, and many do not meet the national recommendations …

Missed meals are common in children and adolescents, especially breakfast which 30% reported missing more than 5x per week. Reasons that children and adolescents skip meals: Food insecurity Don’t like the taste Becoming distracted Not feeling hungry Trying to lose weight Missing meals can be related to: Higher stress Lower quality of life Poor self-esteem …

The COVID-19 pandemic affected individuals and families worldwide in many ways including economically, emotionally, physically, and medically. With the move to virtual work and schooling to reduce the spread of the virus, there has been a stark increase in weight gain and unhealthy eating behaviors. These lifestyle changes have had negative health effects on children …

The human gut is an extremely complex system. Within the human gut there are 100 trillion microorganisms that provide our body with benefits that they are not able to make on their own. Some of these benefits include: resistance against infection and maturation of our immune systems. So that our gut microbiome and our immune …

Supporting your immune system with nutritional support may be helpful to protecting against viral infections like COVID-19. Deficiencies of suboptimal intake of vitamins and minerals may negatively impact your immune function and decrease your ability to fight infection. Supplementation with vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids is a safe, effective and low-cost way to help eliminate …