Childrens Health

Goodkid Foods, a brand of healthy, delicious, and low sugar snack bars for kids

Ashleigh Mitchell, mother of two and Founder of Goodkid Foods, a brand of healthy, delicious, and low sugar snack bars for kids joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Ashleigh Mitchell discuss the following: Tell us more about what inspired you to found Goodkid Foods?Tell us about your healthy, gluten-free Goodkid snack bars. How do they compare to other leading brands?With more than one third of all American children and adolescents suffering from obesity many parents are looking for healthy snack alternatives, how is Goodkid supporting this demand?Where can listeners learn more about Goodkid and its delicious, healthy snack bars for kids? Where can they find purchase them in stores both retail and online? 
Duration: 8:21
Ashleigh is an entrepreneur and mother who started making healthy Goodkid bars in her own kitchen to fill a need in her own family—for a portable yet healthy snack that made kids and parents happy. She quickly realized she wasn’t the only parent in need and founded Goodkid Foods to bring healthy, delicious snacks to Goodkids everywhere.

Website: www.goodkidfoods.com

BÉABA, promoting the healthiest eating habits in children

BÉABA is known worldwide for its unique ability to create innovative products for the juvenile industry with a focus on design and technology. To promote the healthiest eating habits in children, BÉABA has designed a range of cooking and feeding products with a full collection of complementary accessories. Brand Manager Tara Ciccone joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels to tell us more about how BEABA assists with healthy eating.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Tara Ciccone discuss the following: Remind our listeners what products the Beaba line includes as it applies to healthy eating?When using your products how long do most of the recipes take to make?What are the benefits of steam cooking? For healthier eating, what are some recipes you recommend and where can I find some of these recipes? What are some healthy foods you recommend for baby? I understand that the Beaba products can also be used to make smoothies for adults? Is this true, and what type of quick smoothies can you make using the Babycook Pro? At what age should you first introduce these products to your child?What do you tell those parents who say they may not have time to make their own baby food?
Duration: 7:05
Tara Ciccone serves as the Brand Manager at Beaba USA - a company that develops products for smart parents of infants, including the Babycook which was the first baby food machine to hit the marketplace over 25 years ago.
Tara's experience includes juvenile products as well as fashion and her focus in her career has been on developing and managing interested marketing relationships across multiple channels.
Tara has a passion for charitable outreach that helps children and spends much of her time educating others on how making small smart choices in food can vrede a huge lifelong impact.

Website: www.beabausa.com

One Father’s Quest to Broaden His Sons’ Eating Habits

Matt Davis, the Co-Founder of MixedPears, a company that makes products that help you nurture children by embracing their natural curiosity, and designer of BiteSizers portable food scissors joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Matt Davis discuss the following:What are BiteSizers?What inspired you to create them?How do you feel BiteSizers can impact a child’s appreciation for food and any developmental skills, and how do they make parents’ lives easier?What sets BiteSizers apart from other food scissors?Any new products on the horizon for Mixed Pears?
Duration: 13:16
Matt Davis has children’s products in his blood.  Growing up in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, he was always around kids products as his father worked in research for Fisher-Price.  His own career in product design and marketing took him to Taiwan where he now resides with his wife and two small sons.  It was a result of living abroad that Matt observed children eating exactly what adults eat and inspired him to design an easy way for parents to feed their children.

Website: www.mixedpears.com

WeeZee-The Science of Play with Louise Weadock

Louise Weadock MPH, RN, the Founder of WeeZee-The Science of Play, an 18,000 square foot play and learning facility located at 480 Bedford Road in Chappaqua, New York joins eHealth radio and the Health Care and Children Health Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Louise Weadock discuss the following: You are the founder and president of three health-related companies – Access Nursing & Healthcare Services, WeeZee-The Science of Play and Access Sensory Kids.  Can you give me a brief description about each one?What impact do you hope to make on health care and where do you hope to make a difference? Much of your business focuses on therapies. Can you tell us some of the more popular therapies for adults and children?How much of your focus is on children with special needs at WeeZee?  How do you work with children who have Sensory Processing Disorders?How can "optimal Sensory Processing" help our children? What about those aging with Dementia or Alzheimers?
Duration: 17:11
Louise Weadock MPH, RN, is the founder of WeeZee-The Science of Play, an 18,000 square foot play and learning facility located at 480 Bedford Road in Chappaqua, NY and Access Healthcare Services, offering a complete range of clinically and culturally diverse healthcare services and professional staffing personnel for the past 30 years.  In addition, Ms. Weadock recently launched  Access Sensory Kids (ASK) -- a personalized clinical program for children that provides occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech and language therapy to children with autism, sensory processing disorders, developmental delays, ADD and ADHD, eating and swallowing disorders, and many other conditions.
A registered Child Psychiatric Nurse, a 30 year ASD/SID researcher at Johns Hopkins University and the mother of two grown children (one who was diagnosed with autism at age 2), Louise is a known parenting/sensory stimulation expert and has recently written articles on Special Needs Friendships, The Science of Play, Prenatal Sensory Stimulation and Sensory Integration Disorders for a variety of parenting publications.

Website: www.weezeeworld.com

BEABA assists with healthy eating

BÉABA Brand Manager Tara Ciccone joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels. BEABA has created well designed products that help families live a healthier lifestyle.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Tara Ciccone discuss the following: Explain to our listeners what products the Beaba line includes as it applies to healthy eating?For those parents who may have fussy eaters, can you give them some tips on how the Beaba Babycook might help them enjoy mealtime?What is the difference between Beaba Babycook and Beaba Babycook Pro and how do these products make your baby’s food healthier?Where can I find some of your healthy recipes and for those that might not be big cooks, how hard is it to make some of these recipes?What are some healthy foods you recommend?At what age should you first introduce these products to your child?Beaba talks a lot about ‘varied meals’. What is a varied meal?
Duration: 12:05
Tara Ciccone serves as the Brand Manager at Beaba USA - a company that develops products for smart parents of infants, including the Babycook which was the first baby food machine to hit the marketplace over 25 years ago.
Tara's experience includes juvenile products as well as fashion and her focus in her career has been on developing and managing interested marketing relationships across multiple channels. Tara has a passion for charitable outreach that helps children and spends much of her time educating others on how making small smart choices in food can vrede a huge lifelong impact.

Website: www.beabausa.com

Super Nutrition You Can Afford! Better Moods, Marks and Behavior For Your Child

Rosalie Moscoe, owner of Health In Harmony that provides stress-relief, well-being and nutrition presentations to corporations and other organizations joins eHealth Radio and the Nutrition and Stress Management Channels. Rosalie discusses the evidence that Nutrition can help children’s moods, school performance and behaviour.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Rosalie Moscoe discuss the following: What is the evidence that Nutrition can help children’s moods, school performance and behaviour?What are the nutrients that children are missing these days and why is this a problem?What are some ‘bad mood’ foods – energy zappers?How can balancing blood sugar make a difference to a child’s energy and behavior?What can food sensitivities and food allergies cause in some children?Where can parents get more information about boosting their children’s mental health?What final tips can you give to parents about their child’s nutrition?
FREE GIVEAWAY FOR LISTENERS: 20 Page Booklet, Super Nutrition You Can Afford! Better Moods, Marks and Behavior For Your Child
Duration: 12:21
As a renowned professional speaker, Rosalie Moscoe has electrified and inspired over 800 audiences at corporations, associations, schools and other groups for since 1995. She is passionately committed to guiding people to achieve improved nutrition as well as stress-relief to achieve maximum physical and mental well-being. A Registered Nutritional Consultant Practitioner, she graduated from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition in1998. She is in private practice giving one-to-one nutritional consulting to patients of Toronto, Canada physicians - more than 1000 personal nutritional consultations given.
A graduate of Centennial College’s post graduate, Workplace Wellness & Health Promotion Program in 1995 and former college instructor on stress-management, Rosalie delivers quality, well-crafted Stress and Nutrition presentations (over 800, since 95). She also assists clients through individual nutritional consulting and private stress-relief coaching.
Her mission is to provide business and government audiences, and individuals with maximum well-being and vitality. Moscoe combines an inspirational and exhilarating learning atmosphere along with step-by-step practical applications that help people enhance their life journeys.
She is author of CD Audio Program, Food & Mood: A Love/Hate Relationship. Also, she has penned Amazon’s bestselling book, Frazzled Hurried Woman! Your Stress Relief Guide to Thriving...Not Merely Surviving (which includes two chapters on nutrition) and DVD Video and CD Audio Program, Less Stress: More Success! Moscoe has also written many articles published on her own blog at www.healthinharmony.com/blog and on her expert’s page at: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rosalie_Moscoe.
A cause dear to her heart, Moscoe serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, for the International Schizophrenia Foundation (ISF), which promotes orthomolecular (therapeutic nutritional) treatments for all forms of mental illness. She also serves as Chair of the ISF’s Mindful Campaign - a better future for children’s mental health www.mindfulcharity.ca.
A former college instructor, Rosalie taught “A Wellness Approach to Stress Management” at Centennial College in Toronto in 1999.  She is a Professional member of CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) and NSA, (National Speakers Association) in the U.S.  Rosalie is certified by Health Canada in Workplace Health System, Level One. Featured in several publications including the National Post, Canadian Living Magazine, Tonic Magazine and a host of radio programs, Moscoe's knowledge, caring and experience make her the perfect mentor for those seeking journeys back to harmonious living.
Prior to her speaking and wellness career, Rosalie was a singer/songwriter and performer, first as part of the singing duo “Jim & Rosalie”, then a solo artist, having recorded five children’s albums and was nominated for two Juno (Canadian Music) awards. Through empathy, humor, caring and mutual respect, she brings her wit, energy, passion not only to the speaking platform but also to her “Food & Mood” audio CD, “Frazzled Hurried Woman!” book, CDs and DVDs. She’s delighted to also bring her wellness/nutrition work back to the realm of children.

Website: www.healthinharmony.com
FREE GIVEAWAY FOR LISTENERS:
Link: www.healthinharmony.com/supernutrition

Lolita in the Lion's Den, from Abuse to Empowerment

Justin Forest, a sexuality researcher and the author of Lolita in the Lion's Den, from Abuse to Empowerment joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health, Education & Family Information Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Justin Forest discuss the following: Why did you decide to write Lolita in the Lion's Den and what is the book about?Glen's bluntness about his sexual feelings as well as his concern for the sexualization of girls today seem contrary to what we hear about actual offenders or pedophiles. How realistic is this? How is society's inability to address such a taboo topic, in your opinion, harmful to everyone?Glen notes that management of his sexuality is the key, not the concept of changing it. Can you elaborate on this?How has your book been received?
TIP: Parents - if you want to protect your kids - here's the demand you should be making. Ask for more sex education, starting in preschool. What we need is a much better understanding of human sexuality, throughout all points of life. We cannot change the negative stigma associated with sexuality and kids easily, but we can educate and learn. I think it’s a reasonable assumption that if we all understood our sexuality better, even if “deviant,” we might be much better citizens. We should guide boys and girls to understand what it means to have positive relationships instead of locking them into stereotypical gender roles. After all, sex is going to come into the equation sooner or later. Let them — and us — be prepared.
Duration: 15:25
Justin Forest is the author of Lolita in the Lion's Den. He has five college degrees, including a MLSt in taboo studies and a PhD in literature and criticism. He has compiled information for the United Nations on the anti-child sex trafficking movement and has since transitioned to sexuality research. He's a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and teaches themes of girlhood and sexuality.

Website: www.lolitalion.com

Women's World Cup Champion Christie Rampone's Free eBook Summer Survival Kit

The ultimate soccer mom, mother of two, Captain of the US Women’s Soccer Team and a gold-medal winner, Christie Rampone introducing her NEW Summer Survival Kit eBook with Epicor, a winning strategy on how to keep your kids healthy and happy this summer joins eHealth Radio and Family, Fitness & Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Christie Rampone discuss the following:What are some ways you play with your kids?Christie, you travel with your kids year round? How do you keep them entertained while on the road?What can you tell parents who have worked all day how to get excited about getting active with their kids?Late nights and road trips can wear kids out after a while, how do you keep your kids healthy throughout the summer?How do you plan for healthy food on busy summer days or while on the road?
Duration: 7:18

At 39, Christie Rampone is the captain of the United States women’s national soccer team and mother of two. She’s played in four FIFA Women’s World Cup Finals, including her championship 1999 competition and four Olympics women’s football tournaments, through which she has won three gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics.

Web Site: www.epicorimmune.com

4 Resources Every Parent Needs to Know About to Stop Child Abuse Now

Cindy Sunday Powell the Executive Director of PACN (Pregnancy Assistance Center North) located in Spring and Conroe Texas joins eHealth Radio and the Mental and Children's Health Channels. Cindy discusses four resources every parent needs to know about to stop child abuse now.


Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Cindy Sunday Powell discuss the following:What are some factors why parents abuse their children?What should parents do if they feel like hurting their child?How can child abuse be prevented?What are the effects on survivors of child abuse?What should you do if you suspect a child is being abused?
Duration: 12:34
Cindy Sunday Powell is the Executive Director of PACN (Pregnancy Assistance Center North).  She has been with PACN for 23 years.  Before working at PACN, Cindy worked in marketing for an international company, TRW.  She lives in The Woodlands Texas with her husband, Dan.  Cindy is the mother of two and grandmother of three.  Her passion is for the underserved in her community.
4 Resources Every Parent Needs to Know About to Stop Child Abuse Now:
1. National Parent Hotline (www.nationalparenthelpline.org); 1-855-427-2736; parenting skills and crisis line.
2. Prevention & Early Intervention Program; home visitations for mentoring and educating.
3. Safe Haven Laws-places parents can take and leave their infants without facing criminal charges.
4. Child Help (childhelp.org); 1-800-422-4453; 24/7 hotline and crisis intervention, information and referrals.

Web Site: www.pacncommunity.orgFacebook: facebook.com/PACN.org 
Twitter: @GoPACN

The common affliction of Pee-Shy with Dr. Frank Spinelli

Dr. Frank Spinelli is board certified in Internal Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Phsyicians. He is also the author of Pee-Shy and joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Mental Health Channels.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Frank Spinelli discuss the following:Why did you write your book, Pee-Shy?Can you explain why most victims don’t come forward sooner and when they do they’re usually an adult?Being “pee-shy” is a common affliction, but having it chronically is no laughing matter. How seriously can it affect a person’s life, and what feelings does it cause when you’re struggling with it in a social situation?If there is one misconception about child molestation you’d like to clear up what would that be?Do you think oversexualizing children promotes child molestation?
TIPS:
Facts for parents regarding child molestation
1. Child molesters are often someone the child or the parents know. 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are molested by age 16. Stranger abduction occurs 1 in 1.5 million.2. Talk to your children about their adult interactions with teachers, coaches, priests and neighbors.3. Sexual predators often communicate with children on line posing as other children.4. Monitor your child’s social media (Facebook, twitter), emails and texts.5. Certain on line games allow your child to play with people they don’t know. Question your child about their on line activity. For example if they are being asked to send pictures or if they are being directed to chat rooms or websites.What to do if you suspect a child is being molested.TATTLE = TATLT – TALK to your child. Ask them specific questions especially if you notice changes in their behavior (becoming withdrawn, bed wetting, decline in school performance).A – Go to the AUTHORITIES. Child molestation is a crime. If you suspect your child is being molested speak with the police. Do not go to the principal, head coach or Monsignor.T – THERAPY. Early professional psychological counseling will prevent years of shame, guilt and pain your child will experience.L – LOVE your child. Let them know they did nothing wrong. Tell them it wasn't their fault and that you are there for them.
Duration: 11:09
Dr. Frank Spinelli is a licensed and board certified internist at Chelsea Village Medical in Manhattan. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at New York Medical College and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Spinelli is a board member of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis Center. He is the author of Advocate Guide to Gay Men’s Health and Wellness, published in 2008 by Alyson Books.
Dr. Spinelli appeared as himself on several episodes of Sesame Streethelping Murray define the Word on the Street. Currently, Dr. Spinelli appears monthly on Sirius Radio’s Morning Jolt, and co-hosted a two part show, Speak Out: Real Talk about AIDS on Sirius Radio. In 2012, he was featured in two documentaries, Positive Youth and the Emmy nominated, 30 Years from Here. His second book, a memoir entitled, PEE SHY was published by Kensington Books in January 2013. This spring Dr. Spinelli hosts, Dueling Doctors for Veria Living.

Links: www.frankspinellimd.com