| School fuel
The big yellow buses are on the road again! As you send your child out the door, make sure they are well-fueled for the day ahead. Keep in mind that fuel is needed for both the brain and the body. To do well in school, to be able to grow and develop properly, to stay healthy among all the germs that are shared among kids, and to provide needed energy, children need consistent fuel and nutrients throughout the day. Breakfast is a hugely important meal. It provides energy after a long night without food and an opportunity for getting needed nutrients. Children that eat breakfast have better concentration and behaviors than those who are low on fuel. Children (and adults) that skip breakfast, often get into a pattern of over-eating at other times during the day or make less-healthy food choices because they are so hungry.
Kids and Parents Go Wild for Wild Waters
A new beverage brand, Wild Waters, launches the first vitamin-powered, naturally-flavored bottled water made just for kids. Wild Waters boasts 60 to 70 percent less sugar and calories than the leading sugary juices and soft drinks and is free of any controversial artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. Packed with the specific nutrients identified by the USDA as lacking in children's diets, Wild Waters is available in six great fruit flavors kids love and parents can feel good about buying. Water may be the healthiest beverage on earth, but kids find it boring regardless of predictable marketing gimmicks like cartoon characters on the labels. Kids want flavor and a brand of their own, not just a shrunken version of their parents' drink. Unlike other bottled kids beverages, Wild Waters blends the taste and look kids want with the important nutritional value parents approve.
Six top treatments
MANVEET KAUR recommends six lip treatment products that will ensure luscious lips.
OKAY, so its not the worlds biggest health crisis but having a set of dry, cracked smackers is not only painful and uncomfortable, it is also unsightly. On top of that, its hard to stop yourself from chewing on the dead skin of your lips and making it look even worse. The most common causes of cracked lips are allergic reaction to cosmetics, skin infections, extreme weather conditions like excess sun and wind exposure, lip biting and sucking and riboflavin (vitamin B-2) deficiencies. Our lips are extra sensitive to the environment because the skin on our lips is actually mucous membrane which is very thin and allows moisture to evaporate from lips faster than from skin, causing lips to dry out easily.
Summer Superfruits
If you're hoping to lose weight, save your skin from the damaging effects of the sun or alleviate the symptoms of hayfever, eating berries is the answer. Strawberries and raspberries are the "superfruits of the century" according to Patrick Holford, the leading nutritionist, founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and author of this year's best-selling Holford Diet. While the Government recommends eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day, not all fruits are equal. Strawberries and raspberries contain ten essential nutrients. Not only is this more than are found in other foods, five of the nutrients are not found in any multi-vitamin pill. According to Patrick Holford, who on behalf of British Summer Fruits analysed all fruits, strawberries, followed by raspberries, came out top.
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