Television commercials work. They work well enough that it makes sense for fast food restaurants and junk food manufacturers to spend lots of money to entice your child to overindulge. When children watch a cartoon with a single food commercial, they tend to eat twice as much food as when they watch a cartoon with [...]

In the modern United Kingdom, about 12 percent of all normal, healthy, full-term babies are hospitalized at least once in their first 8 months of life. Many of these hospitalizations are for pneumonia, bronchiolitis, or other chest infections; many are for diarrhea or other gastroenteritis. How big a difference might breastfeeding make in preventing these kids [...]

ADHD is one of the most common behavioral and learning problems in childhood. It can affect the school experience, families, and friendships. It.s often associated with other problems as well, including learning disabilities and mood problems. Wouldn.t it be great if there were nutritional ways to help? The relationship between what kids eat and their [...]

Whether or not babies respond to their names by their first birthdays can be an important clue to whether or not they will end up with autism or other developmental delays, according to a MIND Institute study published in the April 2007 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Finding early ways to detect autism is important. This study focused on babies who were known to be at high risk for developing autism because they had an older sibling who had already been diagnosed. In the study, the researchers gave babies a small toy to play with while they were seated at a table, either in a parent’s lap or in a baby seat.