Kids Are Alright - Monday Morning

article of the week Invite your grade-schooler’s buddy over for dinner. Your child will be more likely to try new foods and not be a picky eater! http://sm.eatright.org/dinnerfriend Want your child to try new foods? Invite a buddy over for dinner! http://sm.eatright.org/dinnerfriend #mondaymessage More >> hot tip Don’t use sweets to reward your child. They may decide that sweets are better or more valuable than healthier foods. http://sm.eatright.org/fooddscplne Don’t use foods to punish or reward kids. It impacts healthy eating. http://sm.eatright.org/fooddscplne #mondaymessage More >> recipe of the week Try Snowball Truffles for your kids. They’re dairy-free; don’t have added fat and sugar and taste great! http://sm.eatright.org/snowballtruffle Try these dairy-free truffles! They taste great w/out added fat & sugar. http://sm.eatright.org/snowballtruffle #mondaymessage More >> featured video This hearty potato kale soup is perfect for a family dinner. A secret ingredient brings out its creaminess and texture. http://sm.eatright.org/potatokalesoup Potatoes and kale make this soup perfect for a weekend dinner. http://sm.eatright.org/potatokalesoup #mondaymessage More >>

Woman goes to hospital for hernia, leaves with newborn girl

By Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo! News A 44-year-old Michigan woman went to her local hospital for hernia pains. Fifteen hours later, Linda Ackley was a first time mom. Turns out the "hernia" was a baby girl ready to make her big debut. MLive.com has the full story. Ackley was completely clueless about her pregnancy until she and her husband, Mike, went to the hospital. The couple had long believed they could not get pregnant. Linda hadn't experienced significant weight gain and her menstrual periods had "always been irregular" according to MLive.com. When Linda arrived at the hospital complaining of a hernia, doctors ordered a scan of her abdomen. It was then that medical staff discovered a full-term baby in the womb. An emergency C-section was ordered and Kimberley Kay Ackley was born. "I was happy and shocked at the same time, and scared," Mike Ackley told MLive.com. He said he wished somebody had taken a picture of his face when he heard that Linda was going to have a baby. Linda said it was a good thing he was sitting down. "Some people have nine months to prepare. I had [15] hours," the new father said.

Coroner Links Mom's Death to Coke 'Addiction'

By Katie Moisse | ABC News Blogs A New Zealand coroner has linked the death of a 31-year-old woman to her Coca-Cola addiction. Natasha Harris died Feb. 25, 2010 from a cardiac arrhythmia, according to a 19-page coroner's report obtained by ABCNews.com. And while Harris, a mother of eight from Invercargill, New Zealand, was known to smoke heavily and skip multiple meals, coroner David Crerar concluded that the sugar and caffeine she got by drinking more than 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola Classic per day was "a substantial factor" in her death. "When all of the available evidence is considered, were it not for the consumption of very large quantities of Coke by Natasha Harris, it is unlikely that she would have died when she died and how she died," Crerar wrote in his report. Harris's partner, Christopher Hodgkinson, said Harris would get headaches and act moody without her Coke fix, according to the coroner's report. Close friends said she would "get the shakes" and other withdrawal symptoms. Her heart would race, her liver was swollen, and her rotting teeth had to be removed. But, said the report, "the family did not consider that Coke was harmful due to the fact of it having no warning signs." http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/moms-death-linked-coke-coroners-report-164723213--abc-news-health.html