For the bulk of history, humans struggled to eat enough—from the time of hunter-gatherers living in a wild and dangerous world right up to modernity. Only with the advent of large-scale agriculture, huge food corporations, and open trade were most humans on Earth able to consume enough calories to survive. Though extreme malnutrition still exists in ...
It’s not just the terrible cartoons and mindless, non-active hours on the couch—turns out, sitting in front of the TV might also be turning your kid into a junk-food addict.
Obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the last 30 years.
Kids aren’t so happy about Happy Meals anymore. New research published in the JAMA Pediatrics on Monday shows that children are eating less fast food overall than they were seven years ago.
Stacks of packaged processed slices, and gritty mac-and-cheese powder are staples in many American homes. But with childhood obesity rates skyrocketing, should we really be calling this stuff healthy?