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Letting children help plan, shop for and prepare their school lunches makes it more likely they will eat and enjoy it. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Lunch Lady Blues

Involving Kids with Healthy Lunch Choices As the new school year approaches, parents may need some help with putting together fast, easy and healthy lunches that kids will actually eat. The more you can get your child involved in the menu planning, shopping and preparation of his
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Dancers on stilts perform at the Italian Embassy during the EU embassies open house day in 2014. (Photo: Yuri Gripas)

Weekend Guide

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Eat Your Way Through This Weekend This is a weekend to eat: St. Sophia’s Greek Festival, St. Luke’s SerbFest D.C., St. Andrew’s Romanian Food Festival, Taste of Arlington, Lamb Jam and Taste the World in Fenton Village all promise to add inches to our waists. There’s also a big
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We all love our sugar, especially during the holidays. But a study shows that the FGF21 hormone made in the liver suppresses consumption of simple sugars. (Photo: christmasxcite.com)

Sweet Tooth Control

Liver Hormone May Control “Sweet Tooth” We all love our sugar, especially during the holidays. Cookies, cake, and candy are simply irresistible. While sugar cravings are common, the physiological mechanisms that trigger our “sweet tooth” are not well defined. A study
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