General Health

Talking about weight with your child is tough. But with one-third of young girls and one-quarter of boys reporting weight-based teasing from peers, helping your kids address weight and health is a necessary conversation. When parents search online or ask a medical professional for help in talking with their children about tough topics like sex
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You would never think that writing three blog posts about diet would be hard. Especially since this is more or less my profession, and I am rarely at a loss for words when it comes to talking about nutrition. But when you get right down to it, diet – nearly everything about it is burdened
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Low-fat diets came into popularity in the 1970s and 1980s on the idea that fat would make you fat and cause heart disease. Consumer books like the Scarsdale Diet and Pritikin Diet fanned the fuels of the fire and eventually thousands of individuals were seeking to reduce the amount of fat they ate as a
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