Children are increasingly dictating household food purchases, with new research revealing that parents frequently succumb to ...

Before I had kids, I worked in The Children’s Eating Lab at Penn State University. As a young, idealistic, somewhat naïve graduate student, I developed all sorts of ideas about how I would feed my ...

Shining a spotlight on the urgent need for better regulation and honest marketing. New research reveals how supermarket catalogs are steering Australian parents towards unhealthy packaged foods for ...

New findings from England show how children’s pester power is quietly steering family trolleys towards junk food and HFSS ...

“If I bought the sugary cereal, they would eat that; they would never choose any of the [healthy] options over that,” the mom said Brian Anthony Hernandez joined PEOPLE in 2023. He began working as a ...

A study using a nationally representative survey of parents in England, to be presented at this year's European Congress on ...

Discover why kids crave junk food in summer and find easy healthy snack ideas for kids and kindergarteners.

IN 1915 A worried mother from Maine wrote to the United States Children’s Bureau to ask why her son was rejecting a variety of foods. Could it be that he did not like them? The expert at the federal ...

Eating a junk food-heavy diet for just a few days may be hurting your memory, researchers have warned. More than a third of Americans consume cheeseburgers, fries, and other junk food on any given day ...

A UK-wide ban on junk food advertising comes into force today, aimed at reducing childhood obesity. New regulations prohibit foods and drinks high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) from being advertised on ...