More Food, More Often, Being Eaten Away From Home By US Kids

American children are eating more often outside their homes, as well as in larger quantities; they also continue getting fatter every year. Parents, health care professionals and nutritionists are turning their attention towards the consumption of foods outside the home, because this appears to coincide with the growing obesity epidemic in the USA…

Hiding vegetables in kids’ foods can increase vegetable intake

Preschool children consumed nearly twice as many vegetables and 11 percent fewer calories over the course of a day when researchers added pureed vegetables to the children’s favorite foods.

Eating Before Swimming May Be Dangerous, After All

It appears that people who go swimming on a full stomach really do have a higher risk of drowning, researchers reported in Medicine, Science and the Law.

Eating Location Increasingly Important Factor In Diet Of American Children

As childhood obesity rises and the American diet shifts towards increasing consumption of foods eaten or prepared outside of the home, concerns about the nutritional quality and the total consumption of such foods are also increasing…