Your Friends At Beanstalk Express
Promoting healthy habits, healthy bodies and healthy lives
Who Are We?
Beanstalk Express is a nutrition information and resource website. Founded by a Registered Dietitian certified in Child and Adolescent Weight Management, we are dedicated to the mission to help end the epidemic of childhood obesity. At Beanstalk Express, we believe that obesity begins at home. Most of our children’s lifelong eating habits and food preferences are established long before their first day of kindergarten. We understand that the critical period of obesity prevention occurs during the early and sometimes most challenging years of infancy, toddlerhood and preschool.
Empowering parents and caregivers with the necessary knowledge to guide their child along the path of healthy habit building is at the core of Beanstalk Express. Research estimates that as many as 80% of obese children and adolescents grow into obese adults. The treatment of obesity during these later years is further complicated when unhealthy eating habits and food preferences are inherited from childhood. We are committed to helping parents and caregivers cultivate the healthy habits in their young children that are necessary for achieving vital futures.
What We Do?
At Beanstalk Express, our goal is to educate and empower. Americans, on average, have been deprived a fundamental education in the science of nutrition. This lack of knowledge impedes our abilities to make informed decisions with our own diets – let alone our children’s. We are presently caught in a generational cycle that begins with poor choice making – then leading to unhealthy habits – which can lead to the onset of obesity, and then eventually to secondary diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cancer. This cycle is now beginning even earlier – with 1/3 of children today being overweight or obese. At Beanstalk Express, we strive to end this cycle by empowering parents and caregivers with the knowledge and skills necessary for successfully guiding their children along the path of healthy habit building.
How We Do It?
Being parents ourselves, we understand first hand just how busy life can get. The juggling act of parenting does not lend much free time for us – let alone a crash course on human nutrition! With this challenge in mind, we have streamlined what we consider to be the most important and beneficial information pertaining to healthy habit promotion and obesity prevention in children. We understand that these formative years of prevention occur during the challenging stages of infancy, toddlerhood and preschool. Based on scientific and evidence-based research, we explore each stage of development during these crucial years and provide valuable insight, advice, and solutions to many of the greatest challenges. We present this information in a context that is easy to find, comprehend and apply.