The Moonlight Diet For Children Sally Squires Analysis

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In Squires interview with NPR News, she answered questions and focused mainly on children and an appropriate diet. She gives alternatives for fruits and vegetables for children that are selective eaters. She also states that genetics do play a role in obesity; having one parent that is overweight gives the child a high percentage of being obese but if both parents are overweight then the percentage is even higher.
Sally Squires is a health writer and Lean Plate Club columnist for The Washington Post. Squire’s is co-author of “The Stoplight Diet for Children”, as well.
I will use some of the points of view from this interview in my research paper. Squires gave some good suggestions to alternatives for healthy foods when a child is a selective

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