Overweight & Obesity

Critics: UK plan to cut child obesity lacks muscle

Britain unveiled a plan Thursday to battle rising child obesity by taxing sodas, urging food manufacturers to cut down on sugar and getting schoolchildren to exercise more.

Overweight & Obesity

School breakfasts contribute to healthy weight, study finds

Middle school students who eat breakfast at school—even if they have already had breakfast at home—are less likely to be overweight or obese than students who skip breakfast, says a new study by the Community Alliance ...

Pediatrics

Many school children avoid basic foods unnecessarily

A study on hypersensitivity to the basic foods milk, egg, fish and wheat among young school children showed that reported food hypersensitivity was eight times more common than allergies confirmed by allergy tests. This according ...

Health

Schools serving healthier meals for students

Several grade school students set down their forks to eat their green salad, picking up individual lettuce leaves with their fingers and pushing them into their mouths. Not that I was there to judge for style; it was just ...

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