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Nutrition myths are like fast food restaurants – they are everywhere, they’re hard to avoid, and they can derail your best intentions to follow a healthy, balanced diet. This year’s Nutrition Month theme is “Take the fight out of food.” And that starts with getting the facts. So let’s skip the fast food in favour …

It’s natural to worry and assume something must be wrong when your child seems to lose interest in food.In fact, this is a stage that many toddlers go through. Up to a third of children around the age of two could be described as fussy eaters. Most grow out of it and begin to accept a …

“You’re eating for two” may be a cute adage, but it shouldn’t give you license to eat too much — or the wrong foods — while pregnant. According to the National Academy of Sciences, pregnant women should gain between 15 and 35 pounds. The reality is you need only 100 extra calories a day during …

As the song goes, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” But to help your family stay healthy, you might want to step away from the sweet stuff. Eating and drinking too much added sugar puts kids at risk for obesity, tooth decay, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes …