As a cardiologist who has treated heart attacks for more than 20 years, I’ve seen how eating habits formed in childhood can ...

While eating less might seem to be a positive at a time when many children are battling obesity, with the new school nutrition guidelines, school meals may be one of the healthier meals kids eat ...

“We’re still teaching kids on a daily basis that foods branded with the names Pop-Tart, Cheetos, Funyuns and Domino’s are things that they can and should eat every day,” says Bettina Elias ...

I am asking you to send your children to school with rain gear and warm jackets." FILE - Teachers protest against the COVID-19 vaccination mandates in New York on Wednesday Aug. 25, 2021.

A 2021 study found that schools were, overall, the healthiest place children eat. Several school lunch directors told me this stigma shrank when all kids ate for free during the pandemic.

Many public school students get 15 minutes or less to eat. A study finds that kids who get less than 20 minutes for lunch end up eating less of everything on their tray.

ANGIE MILES: Educators here in the Commonwealth have begun a program meant to get children excited about eating fresh, healthier foods grown by Virginia farmers.

More children eating at school is part of the solution. When a student visits the school nurse for a scraped knee, they aren’t asked to pay for the bandage.

PATNA, India (AP) — At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday.

Schools claim it’s disruptive for parents to eat in the cafeteria. But parents crave the quality time, and some say it’s a good thing for them to be involved with their kids’ place of learning.

New research at Aston University is helping to unpick the complex connections between the eating habits of children and their mothers. The research, by PhD student Rebecca Stone, surveyed 185 ...