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Nutrition

To learn well and stay healthy, kids need to eat nutritious foods. Learn how establish healthy family eating habits. Topics include nutritional guidelines, snack and recipe suggestions, and weight-loss advice.

Healthy Snacks for Kids

Snacks can make up a significant portion of your child's calories, so stock up on healthy snacks for kids. Use snacks to boost nutrition and energy to fuel your child's body without unnecessary sugar or fat.

Why Kids Need Water

Children need adequate fluids every day to stay healthy, and the best beverages for them are water, low-fat milk, and 100% fruit juice.

Your Healthy Snack Ideas

Share your healthy snack ideas with other parents. What do you serve your hungry kids between meals? Let's hear your best kid-friendly, nutritious snack ideas.

Healthy Snacks for Pre-game, Post-game, and Half-Time

Learn what healthy snacks to give kids before a game, after a game, and at half-time. Kids' nutritional needs are different in the hours before and after physical activity, so provide healthy snacks that give young athletes the nutrients they need.

Healthy Snacks to Go

Be ready for those after-school or in-the-car munchies: Stock up on healthy snacks to go. These packable, portable snacks provided good nutrition and a burst of energy for busy kids and parents.

Sweet and Salty Healthy Snack Ideas

When your child craves a sweet or salty treat, try these healthy snack ideas that satisfy and nourish.

Snacks with Fruit and Vegetables

Up your family's produce intake by serving snacks with fruit and vegetables. Try these suggestions for healthy snacks with fruit and vegetable ingredients.

Healthy Snacks with Protein

If kids are clamoring for something to eat, fill them up with healthy protein snacks. Foods containing protein are more filling than starches and usually contain more nutrients. Try these ideas for healthy protein snacks.

How Do You Keep Kids From Eating Too Much Candy?

Parents share their tips, advice, and strategies for preventing kids from eating too much candy after Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day or other holidays.

Healthy Halloween Treats

Save the candy for trick-or-treating and serve healthy Halloween treats at your Halloween party. Try these simple, kid-friendly ideas for healthy Halloween treats.

Halloween Candy Limits and Swaps

Trick-or-treating is fun and a treasured tradition for many families and communities. But no child needs to eat five pounds of Halloween candy this October 31! Limit the loot without spoiling the fun.

Sensible Sippers Organic Juice Boxes

Review of Sensible Sippers from R.W. Knudsen, juice boxes with less sugar and fewer calories than other brands.

Wat-aah! Bottled Water for Kids and Teens

Review and taste test of Wat-Aah! premium water designed especially for kids, with no artificial flavors, colors, additives, or sugar and packaged in a BPA-free, recyclable plastic bottle.

Quiz: Nutrition Facts

Do your kids have a healthy diet? This quiz tests your ability to spot healthy and unhealthy foods by reviewing the Nutrition Facts section of the food label of popular foods.

Controlling Fat in Your Family's Diet

There are different types of fats and some are healthier than others. Learn the differences between trans fats, saturated fats, and unsaturated fats, and how to reduce the amount of unhealthy fats in your family's diet.

Fruit and Vegetable Recipe Search

Boost the nutrition in your family's meals with these recipes featuring fruits and vegetables. Search by keywords or ingredients to find recipes for entrees, side dishes, finger foods and more.

MyPyramid Dietary Guidelines

MyPyramid offers personalized eating plans, interactive tools to help you plan and assess your food choices, and advice to help you make smart choices from every food group, find your balance between food and physical activity, get the most nutrition out of your calories, and stay within your daily calorie needs.

5 Nutrition Mistakes Tweens Make

Tween bodies grow at lightning speed, and they require certain nutrients to aid that development. Unfortunately, many tweens aren't getting enough of some vitamins and minerals, or they're getting too much of a bad thing.

Easy Ways to Cut Fat in Cooking

Find 20 tips for cutting fat from your favorite foods and recipes, without losing good taste.
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