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How To Deal With Your Child Who Won't Eat Vegetables - An Interview With Child Health Specialist, Dr. Maya Adam

August 21, 2017 • child nutrition • healthy eating

This is Part 4 of a series, "How To Feed Our Children More Nutritiously" from an interview with Dr. Maya Adam who is a specialist in child health from Stanford's School Of Medicine. Dr. Maya Adam is a mom of three children ages 12, 9, and 7. You can listen to the interview on The Parenting Journal Podcast on iTunes Here or Download Directly Here. Children can be picky eaters. So what to do if your child will not eat vegetables or only one kind of vegetable? We spoke to Dr. Maya Adam to find out. 1. What would your advice be to a parent whose child...

3 Key Principles To Help Make Your Family Meals Healthier - an interview with Dr. Maya Adam

August 15, 2017 • child nutrition • healthy eating • parenting

We are competing with the fast food industry and the processed food industry when we are trying to get our children to eat in a healthy manner. Here are 3 ways to make family meals healthier and how to compete with potato chips... This is Part 3 of a series, "How To Feed Our Children More Nutritiously" from an interview with Dr. Maya Adam who is a specialist in child health from Stanford's School Of Medicine. Dr. Maya Adam is a mom of three children ages 12, 9, and 7. You can listen to the interview on The Parenting Journal Podcast on iTunes Here or Download Directly Here. 1. Vegetables first. Before you decide on the protein, think about the vegetables first...

Try These 2 Resources And You'll Cook More Healthily For Your Family

August 09, 2017 • child nutrition • healthy eating

Maya says: "The best way to really make change in your diet is to get in the kitchen and start playing. Get out some onions and some garlic and a few vegetables that you like and a few different sauces from soy sauce, some Serratia, whatever it is that you like and start to play around a bit.

You will see that the people in your household will come into kitchen to see what you’re doing. Your kids will want to sauté the onions with you. Your kids will want to see what’s going on. Even the little ones who are too small to help, they will smell the smell of food being cooked in the kitchen, which is a very comforting thing for young child. Especially if there is a routine to it that at a certain time of the evening there is a smell of dinner being cooked- that’s really comforting to children. It signals to them that everything is okay. That food is on the way. Hands on experimentation is the best way to actually learn about healthy cooking."