Healthy Snacks

The main point of having a snack is to make sure to eat every 3-4 hours to keep your metabolism at it's peak performance. Also, when adding a snack to your daily menu you need to eat smaller meals to keep your overall food consumption for the day the same.

Try These!
* Plain Popcorn
* Fruit
* Almonds or Chestnuts
* Veggies
* Applesauce or Yogurt
* Pretzels or Baked Chips

Strict Parenting=Chubbier Kids

Are you the kind of parent who regularly chides your kids about what they eat?
A new study in the June issue of the journal "Pediatrics" suggests that parents who favor a strict parenting style may actually contribute to weight gain in their own children.

After observing four parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and neglecting) among 872 first graders, researchers identified a correlation between obesity in children and lack of flexibility in parents.

"Among the four parenting styles, authoritative parenting was associated with the highest risk of overweight among young children," the study authors concluded. "Understanding the mechanisms through which parenting styles are associated with overweight risk may lead to the development of more comprehensive and better-targeted interventions."

Common Foods that cause Allergic Reactions

Accounting for 90% of all allergic reactions, here are the 8 foods that most commonly cause symptoms ranging from itching to life-threatening anaphylactic shock:

-Milk
-Eggs
-Peanuts
-tree nuts (e.g., almonds, cashews and walnuts)
-Shellfish
-Fish
-Soy
-Wheat

Source: Mayo Clinic 2006.