Parents may worry that feeding fast food to their kids makes them “bad parents,” or that the food is “totally unhealthy.” But ...

Subjecting kids to talk about counting calories or earning dessert, or calling some foods good and others bad, can be deeply ...

Here are eight healthy foods that most kids will actually eat. These ideas can help you make snack time less of a struggle ...

For decades, parents have urged kids to take a daily multivitamin — Flintstones Chewable, anyone? — to help fill nutritional gaps in their diet. Data shows that more than a third of kids in the U.S.

Modern parents often make unintentional nutrition errors that can impact a child's growth and long-term health. Avoiding ...

Snacking is a healthy habit, but kids often grab convenience foods that lack nutrition when they feel hungry between meals. The challenge for parents is finding snacks that are not only nutritious but ...

Vegetarian diets can be perfectly healthy for kids of all ages, even infants, but it's important to not let them be a french-fry-vegetarian, which focuses only on not eating meat. Beans, tofu, diary, ...

A telomere is a kind of protective cap that sits on the ends of chromosomes, and prevents them from degrading. Telomeres are also known to get shorter as cells continue to divide, and they eventually ...

A/Professor Nick Fuller works for the University of Sydney and RPA Hospital and has received external funding for projects relating to the treatment of overweight and obesity. He is the author and ...

The carnivore diet, which is high in red meat, is considered unhealthy for young children by many medical professionals. Red meat is high in saturated fats, which can contribute to the development of ...

My husband is a wonderful partner in many ways, but there is a sticking point when it comes to feeding our children healthy foods. It is simply not a priority for him. He feeds them whatever is fast ...

The findings come as childhood inactivity and obesity remain major global concerns. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...