Limiting Sweets & Sugar: Target

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Kids and Sweets- Healthy Mom Wants to Know If Its Realistic to Hold off on Sugar

H.H. asks from Los Angeles

When I pictured being a mom, I pictured being one of those mom's who kept all sugar and junk food out of the diet until they were three of four. Possibly going veget...

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Halloween Candy or Not?

A.B. asks from Boston

As you may have seen in some of my earlier questions, I have a 5yo who has Lyme Disease. She is on a dairy-free, gluten-free and sugar-free diet for now, since the do...

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Strawberries & Sugar

A.F. asks from Dallas

Hey Mamas, I'm curious to know how many of you let your kids eat strawberries & sugar. My kids would never really eat their berries and my sister suggested I give ...

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What Happened to Don't Take Candy from Strangers

A.S. asks from Dallas

I have Tuesdays off work and I usually run errands with both my daughters. Out last stop of the morning was the grocery store. My younger one was starting to get cr...

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How Often Do Your Children Eat Candy?

N.V. asks from Dallas

I am a mother to 3 girls ages 13, 11 and 8 and was wondering how often you let your kids eat candy? My daughters have been eating candy whenever they want and I thin...

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Non Candy Egg Fillers for Easter

J.K. asks from Kalamazoo

I dont want to break the bank but Id like to think of some stuff besides candy to put in my dd's Easter basket. She's 2 1/2 so that also limits some items that are t...

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How Much Sugar Do You Let Your Kids Have?

N.S. asks from Chicago

My 8-year old SD loooooooves sugar. Of course, most kids do! However, too much sugar makes her hyper and sometimes mean and obstinate. I think this is normal? Howe...

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Effect of Sugar on Children with Asthma

I.M. asks from Houston

Is there anyone with information about the effects of sugar on children especially in the acute phase of asthma. I have read that it affects the immune system, too. ...

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Sneaking Candy in Movies a Bad Example?

N.S. asks from Chicago

This one stumped me! We've always taught my stepdaughter to follow the rules and the "law." And we like to set that example too. Well, this one stumped me! W...

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Halloween Candy, Childhood Obesity & Trick-or-treating

O.O. asks from Los Angeles

Have you seen the news story about the mom handing out notes, instead of treats, to the children she considers "moderately obese" tonight on Halloween? What do you t...