by BrachaKopstick | Jul 29, 2021 | Child & Adolescent Health
What is the Hunger Fullness Scale for Kids? The hunger fullness scale can be a helpful tool in making meal-times easier and less stressful. You may have gotten used to haggling, bribing, or pre-portioning your kids’ food to get them to eat more food, or less food, or...
by BrachaKopstick | Jun 2, 2021 | Child & Adolescent Health, Nourished Eating
It’s summer! Is this what your eating schedule looks like (constant asking for food and/or eating)? The kids are home, they’re hungry, restless, off-schedule, etc., so they eat. Or they bug you for food. Sound familiar? Here are five tips for making...
by BrachaKopstick | Dec 8, 2020 | Child & Adolescent Health, Nourished Eating
Have you ever had a sudden urge for chocolate ice cream or French fries, and the next day or two your period starts? Or maybe it’s the week-of and you can’t stop eating that sugar cereal you save special? There’s a lot going on in the body leading up to...
by BrachaKopstick | Nov 15, 2020 | Child & Adolescent Health, Nourished Eating
A good relationship with food can be preventative for developing problematic eating behaviours like disordered eating or eating disorders. You can help your tweens and teens develop & nurture this relationship. First let’s give a bit of a definition for what it...
by BrachaKopstick | Feb 21, 2020 | Child & Adolescent Health, Nourished Eating
Nourishing adolescent development may feel daunting. Adolescence is a time when kids are developing into adults. Their body is growing, and they need the nutritional energy to successfully do that. And with so much nutrition information it can be confusing knowing...
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