Kids Health
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Nutrition for Kids
Healthy Diet – Healthy Eyes
Nowadays, vision problems such as blurry vision, squinting and loosing eyesight are very common among children. But since healthy vision and eyes are critical for the development of kids, it is very important that you take measures to keep your child safe from the risks of vision problems. Eye examinations should be conducted regularly in order to detect eye diseases …
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Milk Thistle For Your Children
Before knowing the benefits of milk thistle, it is important that you know what exactly a milk thistle is. Milk thistle is basically an herb that helps the body and its different organs to remove any kind of toxic materials which are present. It helps effective functioning of the liver by helping it to filter out all the waste …
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Is Your Child a Fussy Eater?
Is it a battle of wills at mealtimes, getting your kids to eat the foods you have lovingly prepared for them? Do they turn their noses up at the sight of anything vegetably or cheesy? There are all sorts of fussy eaters. Some children will only eat a very limited range of foods, others will refuse to eat foods that …
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Omega 3 For Kids
An article in the papers recently caught my attention. A new study claims that taking Omega 3 oils has a beneficial effect on children who have poor reading skills. Scientists at Oxford University gave 600mg omega-3 fatty acid pills to 362 children aged seven to nine daily for 16 weeks. They found those whose reading skills were in the lowest fifth …
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7 Healthy Food Disguises!
In this article, we will show how you can disguise healthy food for your junk-food-loving kids! CHEESE This food contains protein and calcium that kids need to strengthen their bones and muscles. You can make slices of cheese into shapes, and then put them on sticks with some slices of colorful fruits like strawberry, apple, kiwi and grapes. HOME BAKED COOKIES Instead …
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Cheese and Chia Seed Scones
Most children get spoiled rotten when they visit their grandparents. Sweeties, crisps, pop – grandparents keep it all in their cupboards ‘in case the kids come’. That’s exactly how it is in our family. But not this week. Today the lucky children got a generous pot of chia seeds. Undaunted, we decided to embrace Grandma’s chia seed movement (grandpa wasn’t …
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The Shocking Truth About Fizzy Pop
There aren’t many kids around who will turn down the offer of a fizzy pop. A trip to the cinema often means a bumper-sized one to go with the popcorn, fast-food outlets give them away for free with kids’ meals and the supermarkets offer an astonishing array of neon coloured varieties to appeal to youngsters too – cherryade, pink lemonade, …
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5 a Day Pasta Bake
One winter we decided to have a veg box delivered from a local farm. The idea was that they would supply a bundle of fabulous seasonal vegetables with a super recipe to try. We received this pasta bake recipe with a mountain of red onions, carrots and leeks and the kids absolutely loved it! It is packed with flavour, and …
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Make a Salad Garden
Recently, the supermarkets have been tapping in to the trend for growing your own vegetables by supplying living salad plants in the salad section of their stores. What a great idea! No more soggy salad in the bottom of the fridge, instead you can grow crispy, fresh leaves on the kitchen window ledge. No hassle with germinating seeds or worrying …
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Too Much Salt
Sometimes it is so convenient to whizz together a ham sandwich and packet of crisps for the kids’ lunch, but do many of us consider the amount of salt we are giving them? Too much salt can be harmful as it causes the body to store water, which in turn can raise blood pressure and put unnecessary strain on …
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