Health

Hedy Behzadi began his coaching career over 20 years ago because he didn’t like the way coaches were treating his young son. “The way they coached was too competitive,” he says. “They didn’t let my son play at all. Seventy percent of kids quit the sport they love due to coaches’ behavior.”

Ten-year-old Tulsan Remmi Smith’s cooking show and nutrition project, Cooktime with Remmi, is cooking up some national notoriety. Remmi was recently featured on Amazing Kids, a nonprofit website devoted to recognizing the work of children and young people throughout the nation. And, in May, Remmi was one of only six young people invited to Dallas, Texas to participate in the Apple Education Leadership Summit.

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing parents of twins, or even siblings who are close in age, is how to help them maintain their identities while also fostering a sense of equality.

It’s the major dilemma parents of multiples point out, and it’s not something that can be easily answered by a parenting handbook or advice on a website.

Like you, I want to provide healthy food options for my family every day for every meal. But most of the time, I fall short of that goal, because, frankly, it seems a heck of a lot easier to pick up processed or fast food. After all, who has time to eat well (a.k.a. healthy) when there’s so many other things on the daily to-do list?

Jona Eastman says all of us have the time to make healthy eating a priority; what we really need is a shift in our thinking to learn and appreciate living on whole foods.

As a young parent, I thought that the key to raising successful, well-grounded, happy children was a trauma-free childhood. Surely with hard work, luck and prayer my husband Bill and I could spare our kids pain and difficulty and send them on their way to adulthood emotionally healthy and ready to tackle the world.

But life refuses to be controlled, and our children, as is true with every family, were faced with difficulties and hardships.

First it was soda and now it’s chocolate milk.

School districts across the country have banned the flavored beverage after parents complained about the drink’s sugar and high fructose corn syrup content, but many districts around here are touting the benefits of the flavored milk.

Zumba is a fitness craze that has steadily swept the nation since its beginnings in 1999. According to zumba.com, the program is currently taught in over 40,000 locations and 75 countries. Combining a pumping Latin beat with easily followed dance moves, Zumba fitness can be exciting and fun for all fitness levels.

With the beginning of a new year come resolutions, and many of those have something to do with health.
We resolve to lose weight. We resolve to eat more healthfully, to start taking vitamins, to exercise.
My own New Year’s resolutions almost always include a determination to eat more organic and unprocessed foods and further minimize the amount of chemicals and medicines I feed my body.