Wondering how to pack your child a healthy lunch for school this year? Our friend and colleague, Dr. Roxanne Sukol, gives some wonderful suggestions in this post.
Julie Kardos, MD and Naline Lai, MD
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Need ideas on how to pack healthy school lunches? Beware of junk food masquerading as healthy food. Dr. Roxanne Sukol, an internist who writes the popular nutrition blog Your Health is on Your Plate , mom of three children, and friend of Dr. Kardos’s from medical school, shares her insights.
The key to retraining our children to eat real food is to restore historical patterns of food consumption. My great-grandparents didn’t eat potato chips, corn chips, sun chips, or moon chips. They ate a slice of whole-grain rye bread with a generous smear of butter or cream cheese. They didn’t eat fruit roll-ups. They ate apricots, peaches, plums, and grapes. Fresh or dried. Continue reading “Pack healthy school lunches: beware of junk food disguised as healthy foods”
It’s only a few weeks into the school year and we are running out of snack ideas for our kids. We looked back and found a couple of our favorite posts for snacks by guest bloggers Dr. Roxanne Sukol and Health Coach Mary McDonald . Click here if you are in the same boat:
Packing your child’s school lunch: Beware of junk food disguised as healthy food
Overhauling the Sports Snack Stand
Julie Kardos, MD and Naline Lai, MD
2015 Two Peds in a Pod®
