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Healthy Living

Food and nutrition

  • Breastfeeding
  • Celiac disease and your child
  • Dieting: Information for parents, teachers and coaches
  • Energy drinks and sports drinks
  • Feeding your baby in the first year
  • Food allergy vs. food intolerance: What is the difference and can I prevent them?
  • Food safety at home
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
  • Healthy bones in children and youth
  • Healthy eating for children
  • Healthy snacks for children
  • Iron needs of babies and children
  • Limited supply of infant formula
  • Probiotics and children
  • Vegetarian diets for children and teens
  • Vitamin D
  • Weaning your child from breastfeeding
  • When your child is a picky eater

Healthy habits

  • Children and pets: Tips for bringing a pet into your home
  • Handwashing for parents and children
  • Healthy bowel habits for children
  • Healthy homes for children
  • Healthy pets, healthy people: How to avoid the diseases that pets can spread to people
  • Healthy sleep for your baby and child
  • Healthy teeth for children
  • Masks and children during viral season
  • Teens and sleep: Why you need it and how to get enough

Physical activity

  • Healthy bones in children and youth
  • How much physical activity for your adolescent?
  • How much physical activity for your baby?
  • How much physical activity for your preschooler?
  • How much physical activity for your school-age child?
  • Physical activity for children and youth
  • When is my child ready for sports?
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