First lady Michelle Obama cajoled Jay Leno into nibbling on apples, sweet potato fries and a pizza made with eggplant, green peppers and zucchini on the “Tonight Show,” breaking his long-held aversion for all-things-healthy in his diet.
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Mrs. Obama pushes Jay Leno to eat healthy
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Pediatrician Rosen Works with Families on Eating Strategies
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Source: Palisades Post
By Sue Pascoe, Staff Writer
2011-12-08
When our interview started, the slim Dr. Elaine Rosen confessed she was hungry and then proceeded to buy a snack. As the founder of the California Center for Healthy Living in Encino, her choice of food’yogurt with fruit and a glass of water’was not a surprise.
SELECTIVE EATING DISORDER
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The majority of parents experience some degree of pickiness at some point in the early years of a child’s life.
What happens when this pickiness seems excessive?
NEW EVIDENCE SUPPORTING FAMILY MEALS
Friday, August 19th, 2011
By Frederik Joelving
Reuters
NEW YORK | Mon May 2, 2011 1:32am EDT
(Reuters Health) – Kids who sit down to eat with their families are less likely to be overweight and eat unhealthy foods, according to U.S. researchers who call for more shared meals. In the first report to combine all existing studies on the issue, they found kids who eat with their parents at least three times a week had 12 percent lower odds of being overweight.
The children were also 20 percent less likely to eat junk food, 35 percent less likely to have eating problems like skipping meals or bingeing, and 24 percent more likely to eat vegetables and other healthy foods. “Sitting down together as a family, there are nutritional benefits from that,” said Amber Hammons, a psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, whose findings are published in the journal Pediatrics.
Still, the 17 studies reviewed in the new work were based on observations, not actual experiments, and Hammons acknowledged that they don’t prove shared meals trim waistlines. “It’s just an association,” she told Reuters Health. “Families who sit down together could be healthier to begin with.”