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Questions and answers regarding food, nutrition and eating habits of toddlers are presented.

People eat more than usual in the holiday season. A few smart ways in which one can eat on healthy food are suggested and among the better alternatives are baked sweet potato fries, red wine, oatmeal and turkey.

Tips for exercising outdoors, preventing weight gain and staying healthy during the winter months are presented. Some of these tips include planning ahead for winter workouts, dressing for the weather, warming up slowly, eating soup and vegetables, trying different sports and drinking lots of water.

Women trying to lose weight may change their food habits with the belief they are improving their habits and will lose weight, when in reality they are not. Seemingly healthy foods may have more calories and fat than their old food choices.

Infants should not be fed solid food until they are at least four months old, and preferably six months old. The first solid food the infants should receive is cereal, and the infants should be given new foods slowly to check for allergic reactions.

Eating behaviors that prevent weight loss are discussed. These behaviors include skipping meals, using food as a crutch, following fad diets, eating in front of the television set, and eating too few calories. Tips for eating healthy and losing weight are presented.

Sixteen tips to prevent weight gain when on vacation are described. The emphasis is on planning what to eat, including taking healthy snacks, and being active.

A person's work habits and work environment can encourage weight gain. People rarely need to leave their desks due to the advent of computers, and more often they eat while they work. Junk food is often easily obtained as well. The effects of stress, travel and entertainment on a person's weight is also examined.

Women can help prevent weight gain by eating a healthy breakfast, having smaller portions, and exercising instead of watching TV. Women tend to gain weight when they are under stress, when they get married, when they raise a family and when their metabolism slows.

Toddlers often go through food rituals. These rituals, such as refusing to eat vegetables, are normal. Parents can encourage children to eat more by not making a fuss when they refuse to eat.

Byline: Mindy Berry Three easy strategies to make dinner less hectic and a lot more fun During the first few months of my daughter's life, when my husband, Peter, and [...]

The reaction of parents on their children's behavior of refusal to eat food prepared by them is presented. Important tips given by nutrition expert, Ellyn Satter, to make children develop a liking for food prepared by their parents, without being finicky about their meals, are also presented.

Some of the questions that are aired to analyze the desire to eat are presented.

The answers to some frequent queries relating to diets, healthy fast foods, late night food cravings are presented.

The Christmas holiday season is a time of feasts, and of overeating. People should learn to understand their eating habits before entering the season of eating so that they can take preventative steps. The nutritional profiles of salt cravers, sweet seekers, party overeaters, grazers, and those who only overeat on the holidays are presented.