Nutrition for Kids

Do your kids get bored with the same old sandwiches all school year? Find some easy new lunch ideas that will make your child love his bagged lunch every day.

Do your brain a favor and feed it foods packed with nutrients to keep it healthy and fit. Decrease your chance of disease while improving your mood, thinking, and mental skills with these brain-boosting super foods.

Your kid won't go near vegetables? See if you can sneak in a few here and there with some of these suggestions.

Find tips for making healthier food choices at your favorite fast food restaurant.

From nursery school through college, fat students experience ostracism, discouragement, and sometimes violence. Find out what you can do to help your overweight child.

This fun and interactive tool helps you plan a healthy, balanced diet for your family, based on recommendations from the USDA.

This article discusses the specific dietary needs of children and teenagers.

Read the do's and don'ts of getting your toddler to eat, and find a list of reasons why your child might refuse food.

It's normal for adolescent girls to become a bit chubby as they go through puberty. Find out why you should be careful not to overreact.

Since protein can be found in a variety of foods, it makes it easy to meet the recommended daily allowance in the diet.

For a child's health -- physical and mental -- vegetables have to be an important part of his diet.

Learn which foods seem to help with "binding" up the excess fluids and waste that occur with diarrhea.

Parents of picky eaters believe their children came into the world that way. Those whose children eat everything give themselves a big pat on the back. But who's right?