Allergies, Addiction, Childhood Obesity, and Halloween: All Scary
“In the interest of fighting the childhood obesity epidemic, I’ve decided to eat all the Halloween candy I bought.” Just kidding. The line is from Someecards, a company that devises — you guessed it — greeting cards in electronic format. The picture above is not the ecard, by the way. The boy in the picture […]
Teal-o-Ween Catches On
If you spot a teal pumpkin this year, the color does not simply mean “no candy,” although that concept in itself is quite valid — but there is a lot more to it.
It’s That Scary Time Again
Halloween tends to set the tone for the rest of the holidays that cluster around the end of any year and the beginning of the next.
Life Hacks for Parents
Try to look at every parenting annoyance as a challenge, and every challenge as an opportunity, and see what happens.
Sidestep the Winter Holiday Blues
The food-as-hospitality equation is beautiful but also dangerous. Ideally hosts should refrain from goading their guests into consuming more than they wish to.
A Winter Holidays Encyclopedia — 5
Somehow the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a blur, and the next thing we know, it’s three days until Christmas and our clothes don’t fit anymore.
Switch Witch Lore
The Switch Witch has been around for a while, swapping sweets for gifts, and incidentally, for a childhood with fewer dentist visits.
Obesity Festivals — Same Stuff, Different Day
The sad reality is that most holiday treats are composed of the same ingredients, rendered into different shapes and dyed with holiday-specific colors.
Some Basic Projects
Let’s aim for a family culture that includes the very important standard of not dragging consumption into every mundane activity.
McDonald’s History en Español
So here ya go, kids — eat this, drink that, and be sure to spend plenty of time sitting around engaging with social media — the obesity trifecta!