Sugar Overload

  We have addressed the many ways in which excess sugar consumption impacts health many times before on The PediaBlog. We know that eating and drinking too much sugar increases the risks in children AND adults for the complications of overweight and obesity,...

*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on July 27, 2016.   Damage Starts Early     On Monday, we looked at data pointing to positive improvements in several areas of pediatric health in the United States over the past 20 years: Teen pregnancies...

*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on July 20, 2015.   Obesity: Plan “A” Isn’t Working   We spent last week on The PediaBlog discussing the need — the urgency — for finding ways to prevent overweight and obesity in children....

The Sweet Benefits Of Breakfast

  Regular readers will find it unsurprising that The PediaBlog loves food, especially breakfast: You’ve heard it before:  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For your children, it gets their “motors” (and their bowels) going and provides energy for...

Say “No” To The Chips

  We’ve been looking at the worsening childhood obesity epidemic from a global and national perspective over the past few days on The PediaBlog. Many of the solutions we considered yesterday have already been tried, reminds The Atlantic’s Olga Khazan:...