A child nutritionist gives her advice.
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It’s not laziness that is causing some parents to overfeed their children.
A healthy diet is a good idea, but cutting out entire food groups is not.
The UK isn’t doing enough to help mums breastfeed successfully
Lunchtime is one more lesson on what a healthy meal should look like.
Getting local farmers involved in school feeding schemes has the potential to boost livelihoods and revitalise rural economies in Africa.
Parents need to know the truth about formula milk.
Here are some tips to get your picky eater into lifelong healthy habits.
To combat childhood obesity, we need to start from day one.
Ghana’s school feeding programme has reached millions of children in the past 11 years. It does important work, but needs more support to grow and become sustainable.
Adults who had a low birthweight or were undernourished as young children are more likely to experience high blood pressure and obesity.
Eating breakfast is associated with higher grades in English, maths and science.
Last month Burger King took soft drinks off of their kids’ menu. But will making low-fat milk and apple juice the new default options change how kids eat?
Give your children bran for breakfast and they could concentrate better at school.
The NHS is 67 years old, on its knees and struggling, and its patients are not doing much better. Launching the Labour Party’s new plans for public health today – it’s an election year after all – the…
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school lunch table. Plenty of criticism centers on the unhealthiness of…
How many times have we heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? There’s overwhelming evidence to suggest that it is, especially for children. Eating breakfast has been shown to improve…
From celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Money Saving Meals to blogging mum Jack Monroe’s 100 Delicious Budget Recipes to the NHS Eat4Cheap campaign, eating well on a budget is now a national pastime. But research…
Poor nutrition is a primary cause behind the rising cost of health care in many developed countries. Although pupils have good knowledge of what is healthy and what is not, that does not always translate…
We should be concerned about our children’s diets. In 2011, nearly 10% of four to five-year-olds in the UK were classified as obese. By the time they leave primary school, nearly 20% of children are obese…
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