Have you ever wondered how to talk to your kids about nutrition? It’s important to help children develop healthy relationships with food, and that starts with how we talk about what we eat.
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Revisiting Eggs and Cholesterol Questions
March certainly ‘comes in like a lion’ around here, right? It’s currently snowing, but hopefully by the time this goes to print our temps will have risen above freezing…
Back to nutrition. I received a question in response to my column last month about eggs. Did you know you can ask me questions? PLEASE DO. (It gives me a topic about which to write! Half the battle, sometimes…)
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The humble egg truly deserves its turn in the spotlight. I was recently reminded of this while talking with a friend, who told me that typically makes eggs for dinner for herself and her family one night a week. Sunday nights are busy evenings for them during the winter when they spend the weekends skiing, and she is a vegetarian, which makes them an excellent protein source for her. Bonus: her young children typically eat eggs without complaint (although we all know that can change—and change back—in an instant). Her simple statement about making eggs for dinner regularly gave me pause…and caused me to cook my daughter an egg for lunch the other day…which she ate.
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