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Healthy Eating For A Healthy Life

Healthy eating habits begin in childhood.  The earlier children are exposed to junk food, the greater the likelihood they'll be plagued with dangerous life-long help problems, says ongoing research. Let's start our children on the right path.

Introducing Toddlers to New Foods:  Growing a Good Taster

The book, First Bite:  How We Learn To Eat, written by Bee Wilson, a food writer and historian, is a book for parents to gain an understanding on how food habits form.  This article is an excerpt from an interview with Bee Wilson on her book on NPR's Fresh Air (the 37 minute audio is also here if you want to listen):
In Baby's 'First Bite,' A Chance To Shape A Child's Taste

Helpful tips for parents gleaned from a reviewer of the book:
First Bites-- Useful Tips From The Book

EXTRA
Dina Rose, PhD, the author of It's Not About The Broccoli, has an informative website: Changing The Conversation From Nutrition To Habits:  ItsNotAboutNutrition.com

BOOK DISCUSSION
We will discuss Chapter 5: 1-2-3 Discipline: Redirecting for Today, and for Tomorrow. this week (beginning 3/11) of No Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson.

CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS
It's midterms, so we're potlucking.  Next week, the week of March 18 is potluck week.  We'll spend time talking about and eating food.

March 25-29 is Spring Break.

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