It's that time of year when its cold outside, it gets dark early, your busy preparing for holidays and kids are excited to be off school!  Your immune system is a little low and energy needed is on extra high!

This holiday season take some time to enjoy your family, get outside, get some rest, and make room for some extra healthy foods!

We wish you all the best this season and thank you for a wonderful 2011.  Your support has enabled us to help children stay healthy all over the world thru vitamin donations and again donate new bikes to children at our local Children's Aid Society.

Please visit our website to see our full Thank you card for and holiday wish for You.  Hoping you have the healthiest of holidays!

  Adult Essentials tops
            Mt. Vinson

Adult Essentials is super proud to have been a small part of Scott Kress's successful summit of Mt. Vinson in Antarctica.  He is now the 15th Canadian to have summited all 7 peaks in each of the 7 Continents!

Read his full blog, documenting every step of his adventure!

Our blogs this month is all about staying healthy and having fun with food!

» Family Hike - we recently braved the cold and resistance from kids, and had a fabulous family hike. Photos tell the story!

» The Ultimate Family photo - we don't just talk about being healthy . . we ski, skate, climb and bike it too! Check out our new family photo!

» Kids & Colds - we share some tips on boosting that immune system so the germs don't take you down.

» Traditions in Food - every year our kids decorate dozens of cookies and gingerbread houses. Icing and candy is everywhere - how is this healthy? Have a read and find out!

Iron-kids.com reviews the latest in health news and highlights the important articles for you. There is so much information in the media, we hope this makes it less confusing and helps you decide which supplements are right for your family! Here are just a few of the headlines; for the full list visit Nutrition News on our website!

• Healthzone.ca: A little reward might get kids to eat veggies
  
• HuffingtonPost: Winter fruits: How to get favs out of season
  
• HealthZone.ca: How much sugar is in your favorite cereal?
  
• HealthCastle.com: Exciting facts about boring foods
  
• Healthzone.ca: Vitamin D studied as a flu fighter 

Iron-kids.com has a staff of experts from the nutrition industry as well as Dieticians specializing in family nutrition that can answer your frequently asked questions. Here are a few of our recent hot questions; for a full list, visit our FAQ's page on our website!

• Should you offer your child rewards for trying new foods? 
• How much caffeine is OK for my kids? 
• Is there a type of sugar that is better for my kids to use?
  
• Is White bread with added fiber as good as Whole grain bread? 

Kids Playground - is full of fun idea's on getting active! Check out our IronKids in action through photos! Send us your photos at promo@lifescinutritionals.com and if we use them on our website we will send your IronKids a free IronKids Water Bottle!

Kids Kitchen this month features Tammy and her 4 little gardeners!! She is convinced the reason they abandon Halloween candy in favour of a carrot is due to cultivating their own garden! We are super impressed with this veggie loving family!

Read their story.

Your Healthy Kids- is where YOUR kids shine! Tell us what your kids are up to, how they are staying healthy or making broccoli taste good!!

IronKids is active in our community and yours! We will be sponsoring kids activities and fun runs, family outings and Mom Networking events. Here we will share reviews of our products, media we are featured in and contests you can enter to win prize packs of IronKids Vitamins.

Tis the season to think of others and IronKids is proud once again this year to make a donation to Pace Performance who, with the help of Canadian Tire, donated over 100 new bikes, helmets & locks to the Halton Children's Aid Society.  

Company owner, Stuart Lowther is the elf wearing the Santa hat.  He is show here delivering the bikes with Greg Pace of Pace Performance, Tina Blatchford of Children's Aid and Brenda West of Medical Mart Supplies.

Join us on Facebook where everyday talk about healthy foods, family hikes, where you can find IronKids on sale and keep you up to date on everything happening with IronKids.

This month we unveiled our new Family photo on Facebook.

What do you think? Can you find all 3 of our IronKids?