Category Archives: Nutrition

Sugar Nazis

By Jodi Cohen | Published: November 15, 2010
We know them. We dread them. We fear being shunned when we see ourselves turning into them. I get it and I’ve lived all sides. I was annoyed when friends would judge me for giving my oldest child juice or chocolate milk or gasp, a cookie. “Whatever,” I thought. “It’s not going to kill her. [...]
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Plying my child with sugar at school

By Jodi Cohen | Published: October 7, 2010
Volunteering in my daughter’s classroom, another mother brought in a Tupperware container full of sugar cookies, dripping with sugar on top. It was 10 a.m. The class was celebrating a small milestone and the mother decided to bake cookies — around 300 of them for a class of 25 kids. While I understand her well [...]
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