Some of more than 8,000lbs of locally grown broccoli from a partnership between Farm to School and Healthy School Meals is served in a salad to students at Marston Middle School in San Diego, ...

Finding ways for kids to eat their vegetables can be a difficult task for many parents. Now, researchers from the University of Eastern Finland are calling on parents to take their own advice to make ...

Creating healthy eating habits is so important for children. Even though I wish I could let my son eat whatever his heart desires, I know that a steady diet of fruit snacks and pizza may not be the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, covers health, medicine, wellness and science Have you eaten the recommended daily amount of fruits and ...

The National School Lunch Program, which provides free or low-cost meals to more than 100,000 public and non-profit schools across the country, has had a difficult time getting kids to eat fruits and ...

A fellow mom recently asked me whether cucumbers and celery really count as green vegetables. She had heard they don't offer much nutritional value because they are mostly water, so she figured she ...

Although many Americans know they should be eating more fruits and vegetables, only 11 percent actually meet the recommended minimum of five servings a day. Many parents are worried their kids don’t ...

Getting kids to eat their vegetables isn’t a new problem—a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey noted that 9 out of ten children don’t get the recommended servings of vegetables.

There are some feuds that it seems no amount of understanding can soothe. Capulets and Montagues. Yankees and Red Sox. Hatfields and McCoys. Kids and vegetables. Those outside the feud shake their ...

While clever marketing can steer kids towards junk food, a new study shows that creative advertising can also prompt more kids to eat vegetables. The tactic the researchers used was simple and ...

According to a 2014 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nine out of 10 children were not eating enough vegetables. It’s a problem that Bill Telepan, executive chef of the ...