Hope everyone had a great weekend! Anyone read last week’s Tara Parker Pope’s NY Times Well Column, The Lure of Forbidden Food? In a nutshell, some new research shows that when food is off limits to children, they want it more. Nothing so new to me here – I believe this is true for everyone, adults and children alike. Which…
The Jewish holiday of Passover starts tonight, which means this week’s menu will be filled with matzo, matzo, and more matzo. Sounds yummy, right?! (In case you don’t know about matzo, here’s an explanation.) All joking aside, I’m not one of the many people who thinks there is nothing but matzo, potatoes, and meat to eat on this holiday. If…
Happy World Health Day! Every year on April 7th, the World Health Organization celebrates World Health Day and draws attention to a public health problem of global proportions. This year’s theme is vector-borne diseases, which include malaria, yellow fever, and dengue caused by mosquitoes, bugs, ticks, and flies and affect the poorest people in the world. You can find out…
Another weekend has passed and another week has begun. The summer sure is winding down fast. Unlike most parents, I don’t have kids heading back to school – my girls are only 19 months – but I am definitely starting to feel the end-of-summer blues. Trying to enjoy the remaining weeks of long days before it gets cold and dark…
