How to approach fast food wisely
FamilyResource.com
If you find that the very survival of you and your kids seems to depend on the occasional consumption of fast food, you don't have to cut it out all together; you just have to make judicious, nutritious choices.
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Eating well
Chicago Parent
With school on the horizon, it's time to start thinking about brown-bag lunches. For a "no-trade" lunch, combine one part nutritious ingredients-the less obvious the better-and one part coolness that captures some fad designed to drive other kids wild.
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Your health
Creators.com
With the arrival of the new year, slimming down may be at the top of your list of resolutions. You may think that you've tried everything to shed those extra pounds, but you probably haven't tried the latest, greatest gadget for losing weight: an electrical gastric stimulation device. It's a new, surgical approach to overcoming obesity, and so far, it appears to be relatively effective and reasonably safe.
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Your health
Green Valley News & Sun
Cancer is a scary disease--one that many people fear more than any other illness. In spite of the dread it inspires, most of us aren't doing as much as we can to prevent it.
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Regnery publishing - hot new releases
Regnery Publishing
You want your kids to eat healthy and stay fit, but as a working parent, you don’t have the time to eat right yourself, let alone monitor every morsel you child consumes. In Healthy Lunchbox, Dr. Rallie McAllister offers you a realistic solution to your working-mom dilemma: Get fit together!
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Your health...
Miss-Lou Magazine
When 38-year-old Sarah M. was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer, her life was thrown into a tailspin. "I was devastated," she says. "But believe it or not, knowing that I had breast cancer wasn't even the worst of it. I had to make the hardest decision of my life -- how to go about treating it."
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Grapefruit juice reduces absorption of medications
Northwest Center for Health & Safety
Here's some bittersweet news for juice drinkers: Grapefruit juice may soon come packaged with a warning label.
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Weight-loss tips for kids
WebMD
Newspaper articles and television reports constantly remind us that a growing number of children in the United States are overweight or obese. And many parents are being told to put their kids on a diet or risk that they will develop serious health problems. But what is the best way to get a child to lose weight and keep it off?
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Snacking is normal; make it healthy
The Salt Lake Tribune
Snacks happen -- especially if you are a kid. Research shows eating between meals is not only normal, it is the best way for growing children to get the energy they need throughout the day.
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Healthy re-evaluation spurs pantry panic
The San Diego Union-Tribune
While researching today's story on school lunches, I remember opening my pantry one morning and standing in horror at what I had stuffed onto the "lunch food" shelves. Chips. Cookies. Fruit snacks. More chips, gotta have different flavors, you know. And more cookies.
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13 weight-loss tips for kids
WebMD
Newspaper articles and television reports constantly remind us that a growing number of children in the U.S. are overweight or obese. And many parents are being told to put their kids on a diet or risk that they will develop serious health problems. But what is the best way to get a child to lose weight and keep it off?
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Kids' obesity a call to arms
The Arizona Republic
More than 15 percent of American children are obese, up from 7 percent in 1976. And a study just released by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill found that obesity doubles from the teenage years to the mid-20s.
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School lunch can pack punch
USA Today
Rallie McAllister, mother of three boys and author of Healthy Lunchbox, has learned that her children will eat vegetables if she gives them cut-up broccoli, grape tomatoes or baby carrots along with some packaged dip.
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Free lunch box recipes
Enjoy several exciting recipes from the new book, Healthy Lunchbox. Get started today with several creative themes to delight your children and contribute to their better health.
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Publishers weekly review
HEALTHY LUNCHBOX by Dr. Rallie McAllister recently received advance praise in Publishers Weekly. Click to read the review.
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Drinking is hard on gums
The Courier-Journal, Louisville KY
Drinking alcoholic beverages might be a risk factor for gum disease. A study of nearly 40,000 male health professionals by researchers at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine found that men who drank alcohol had an 18 percent to 27 percent higher risk of periodontitis than men who didn't.
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