Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa

The diet children and teenagers will follow for the next fifty years is probably the most significant factor in the overall health they will experience for the rest of their life, not to mention next week. Daily nutritional deficiencies or lifestyle excesses are a pretty good predictor of where one's health will be in a few years. 
Yet the Standard American Diet has a lot of problems. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are common. Fiber levels are one tenth of that of our historical diet.
Childhood Obesity has become an epidemic. Caloric sweeteners definitely share a big part of the blame. Check these statistics and get a handle on why American children are in big trouble.

Recipes for gooey mixtures for kids.

A quick checklist of handy tips for feeding your family with natural foods

Most current nutrition science points to mono-unsaturated fats as the best possible dietary fats. But which fats are best for my family to be eating?

Low carb. Slow carb. No carb. Whole carb. Everybody’s talking about carbs. It all sounds good, but who’s right, and just what are they all talking about, anyway?

Why is sugar a problem in the diet, and what’s the bottom line on carbohydrates?

One way or another, you must have protein in your diet. The RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) for protein is 0.36 grams of protein per pound of body weight. Based on this standard, a 75-pound child needs 27 grams of protein per day.

The diet a person follows for the next fifty years is probably the most significant factor in the overall health you will experience for the rest of life. Your daily nutritional deficiencies or lifestyle excesses are a pretty good predictor of where your health will be in a few years.

When we talk about kids and sugar, the bottom line question often really is, “Does eating a lot of sugar truly cause diabetes?”

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), a section of the National Institutes of Health, recently completed a study aimed at determining the prevalence of dietary supplement usage, but also intended to reveal which nutrients children were taking.

"Everything in moderation" is a great motto until you realize that moderate means different things to different people.