Nutrition and Fitness
Learn how to keep kids healthy with the right foods and exercise.
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Healthy Eating & Your Family
To help your family eat right, choose whole grains and lean protein and serve plenty of fruits and vegetables.
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Kids and Exercise
Kid don’t need to be athletes to get the benefits of an active lifestyle. From toddlers to teens, exercise can make kids stronger, happier, and healthier.
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What’s the Right Weight for My Child?
Learn how to help your child get to a healthy weight.
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Special Diets
Parents may need to pay extra attention to what kids eat if they have food allergies, medical conditions, or follow vegetarian diets.
Nutrition & Fitness Advice by Age
Encourage healthy habits from birth to teens.
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Infants: The First Months
During the first 3 months, breast milk or formula will provide all the nutrition babies need.
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Toddlers
Toddlers might show their growing independence through what they eat — and what they won’t eat.
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Preschoolers
Encourage kids to make good food and exercise choices, without hovering or pestering. Here’s how.
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School-Age Kids
At this age, kids are busy! They need food that powers them through their day — and maybe a little motivation to get offline and be active.
Nutrition Q&A
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Your toddler doesn’t like green beans the first time around? Don’t stop serving them. Kids are naturally slow to accept new tastes and textures, so keep reintroducing the beans.
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The best time to introduce solid foods is when your baby has the skills needed to eat. How do you know when that is?
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In the first year of life, a baby only needs breast milk or formula.
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Childhood obesity is a serious problem, so many schools have added BMI to their student annual health screening.
