Kids learn from an early age that doctor visits are not always fun. We try to explain that those visits are an important part of being healthy, but info like that tends to go right over their heads.

A common struggle for parents of growing kids is getting them to eat healthy foods. How does an adult convince a seven-year-old to choose an apple over a Snickers bar or that vegetables are ...

Taking a look at the data over the past 50 years we can see that the percentage of overweight or obese children used to be less than 5 percent. Through the years, that percentage has continued to ...

The trip is part of Healthy Choices for Kids, a community service learning project of the ...

Getting Kids to Make Healthy Lunch Choices. Published Mar 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, ... calls the new approach "stealth health," getting kids to eat healthy without even realizing it.

Obesity in youth continues to be a problem throughout the United States. As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is changing the food pyramid for toddlers aged two to five. A new preschoole… ...

Sweet and salty flavors, repeat exposure, serving size and parental behavior are the key drivers in children's food choices, according to a July 15 panel discussion at the 2013 Institute of Food ...