Our guest blogger is Melissa Stewart, mother of two. She will introduce herself:
Hi. My name is Melissa, and I’m from South Carolina.  I swam competitively for 12 years.  We Southerners live in the sun.  I [...]

“I’m tired of this. I don’t like that.” Just weeks into the new school year, are you hearing these statements about school lunch? What to pack for lunch at school is a dilemma many parents [...]

Creating a healthy lifestyle is a big issue in our country, not only for adults, but for our children. Rates of obesity among people have grown over the past couple of decades at frightening speeds. [...]

It’s still January, so Happy New Year to you! January is a time when many people start to think about what they’re going to do differently this year. Often those thoughts go to [...]

Through my work in nutrition education, some of the most common questions I am asked have to do with feeding children, especially those who may be “picky eaters.”  Questions come from parents, grandparents, teachers, childcare [...]

I overheard my daughter’s preschool teacher talking to another teacher recently.
“I try to teach the little ones about healthy eating.  They love to learn about fresh fruits and vegetables—even if they are not willing to [...]

I am in my second week of learning about nutrition programs and issues here in the Andean highlands of Peru and have seen and heard time and again the same concerns and issues [...]

This spring I was lucky enough to spend the weekend with my nephew over his third birthday. The morning after the celebration, I sat down next to him with a bowl of fruit salad. It [...]

Over the winter, I got on a kale kick, and it happened mostly by accident. I needed change to put into a parking meter near the Ann Arbor Farmers Market, so I broke a $5 [...]