Vickie L. James RD LD - HKC Director's blog

Do you and your children eat breakfast?  Is it a healthy breakfast?  Breakfast GO Power is one of our HKC Healthy6 practices.  The 5 “Powers” of a healthy breakfast are...

What does a healthy balance mean to you?  For us, it’s the core of our mission, to help people help kids eat, move, and enjoy a healthy balance.  I think it means truly enjoying everything in moderation, but what do you think?

8 ways to get people to buy-in to personal wellness from our Facebook Fans. Thanks everybody who offered answers to my question! Have YOU tried any of these?

Most Americans are unable to limit consumption of sodium to 2,300 mg a day, so will an even more restrictive guideline be too challenging and discouraging?

You stare at your kids every day.  You admire them.  You love them.  You’d die for them.  Would you fight obesity for them?

During Taste of Chicago at the Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) Walk Through the Pyramid over 1,000 kids and families walked through MyPyramid food groups, talked to the dancing carrot, and got moo-ful tips from the milk group cow while learning more about healthy eating and physical activity!