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The healthy eating plate is a graphic representation of what foods should be included in a healthy diet.

Veggie burgers can be made with any type of vegetable and kids will eat them.

Adopting a gluten-free diet to treat celiac disease may mean to some people accepting sheer eating boredom. Nothing could be less accurate.

Children who suffer with celiac disease have an especially tough time. It is not painful but the dietary restrictions can be annoying.

While the fetus is developing, it gets all its needed nutrients from the mother through the umbilical cord. This includes compounds that help the baby's immune system to protect it from harm. But even after birth the baby's immune system is still not fully mature. Fortunately, nature has cleverly developed a solution. The added help it needs it gets in part from colostrum and milk via breastfeeding.

In an ideal world, our children would never be exposed to any sugary “fruit drinks” or packaged juices. But if yours have already developed a taste for sweet drinks, the easiest way to get them to begin drinking raw, fresh homemade juice is to include fruit in the juice.

What they will drink, what’s good for them

Although raw fruit juice contains higher sugar levels than vegetable juice does, your children will be much better off with these juices than with commercial juices. If you make your kids’ juices with organic fruits, that is better for them still.

Cooking is as much fun as eating. However, to be a good cook, you need to do things by the book. There are some basic rules that even very experienced cooks follow. Find here a basic list.