Dietician recommends teaching children healthy lifestyle over diet

December 1, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Dear Dietitian, Please settle an argument between my wife and me. Our 11-year-old son is about 20 pounds overweight. My wife, who has been thin all her life, wants to put him on a diet to get him on the right track. I am against the idea of a diet. What do you think? Concerned…

Healthy Lifestyle

Hundreds turn out for first in series of Student Health vaccine clinics for children ages 5 to 11

November 20, 2021 Sharika Soukup

November 18, 2021 Liliama Alcantara-Barrios and her kids joined a line of families that stretched from the gymnasium door, down the hall and outside into the windy, chilly November evening. Her son Lucas, age 6, would be among 350 kids receiving their first COVID-19 vaccine at the Student Health Center vaccine clinic — the Country’s…

Insurance