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September 19, 2012

A Family Exercise Routine Keeps the Diabetes Monster Away From Black Children

By NICK CHILES We talk a lot on MyBrownBaby about the benefits of exercise for kids—and we have some more helpful ammunition today to keep pressing the point, this time through a study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A clinical trial done with 222 overweight ...

August 7, 2012

On My 47th Birthday, Thanking My Diabetes for Waking Me Up

By NICK CHILES It’s been exactly 20 months since I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It was a shocking night for me that feels like a blur in my memory because the diagnosis was so mind-numbing. I had always been an athlete, always felt like I was in control ...

July 27, 2012

9-Year-Old Caught On Tape Violently Kicking, Punching, Biting Babies At Daycare

Oh. My. God. Those were the only three words I could say last night after viewing this Mississippi day care center surveillance video of a 9-year-old boy, busted terrorizing babies with punches, donkey kicks, slaps, bites, pinches and choking so brutal, it’s a miracle they’re not in coffins. The unidentified ...

June 27, 2012

Want Healthy Delicious? Try This Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie!

Whether you’re hitting the beach or trying to stay cool inside this summer, there are many healthy, easy foods and snacks to prepare in advance or even on the fly. In the warm summer months, ice cream sounds more appealing than usual. But instead of indulging, try this five-ingredient smoothie that ...

April 23, 2012

Bad Mommy—the Spring Break Edition: Getting the Kids On a Health Track With Vicks Nature’s Kitchen

Yes, the picture accompanying this post, of my daughter downing a sprinkle donut and a can of soda for breakfast, is proof positive that I have Crap Mom Moments. I don’t specialize in them, mind you. But I have them, for sure. This was a particularly crappy Crap Mom Moment, ...

March 21, 2012

New Study: Boys Consume More Sugar than Girls; White Kids Consume More than Blacks and Hispanics

By NICK CHILES When it comes to our children and sugar, a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics contains some revelations that may surprise you: Older children consume more sugar than younger ones do, boys consume more than girls, and white children consume more than black or ...

March 20, 2012

Down With Pink Slime Meat: Healthy Recipes I’m Cooking Up With Curtis Stone & Vicks Nature Fusion

So, with all the stories about the ammonia-treated pink slime hiding in fast food, our kids’ school lunches and even the ground beef and lunch meat we buy from the grocery store, let’s just say the Millner/Chiles household has become increasingly dedicated to knowing what’s in our food, eating more ...

January 9, 2012

Curtis Stone Whips Up A Healthy One-Pot Meal For MyBrownBaby and Vick’s Nature Fusion

When Nick and I moved to Georgia from New Jersey almost seven years ago, we did so because we were looking for real connections with our children—wanted to be the kind of parents to them that we simply couldn’t while we were working full-time jobs in one state, living in ...

December 15, 2011

Curtis Stone’s Secret To Getting Kids To Eat Veggies: A Great Chili Recipe

I mean, I get the three-year-old who only eats beige food and the occasional peanut butter-smothered carrot stick. I had one of those. If it wasn’t a chicken nugget, a french fry, applesauce or popcorn, she wasn’t eating it. But we put an end to those shenanigans around age five; ...

November 29, 2011

Curtis Stone’s Secret To Healthy Families: Great Recipes & Vicks Nature Fusion

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m a complete and total whiney punk when it comes to being sick. I’m talking everything comes to a standstill: I’m wrapped up under the covers. All my mom duties—cooking, laundry, hairstyling, dish washing—are shut all the way down. And forget about having ...