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Kids Who Won't Eat: How to Help Children with Eating Disorders
..., an abnormally slow heart rate, and, in 10 percent of cases, death. In fact, the National Eating Disorders... Association (NEDA) says that eating disorders have the highest fatality rate of any mental illness, including... depression. It's estimated that up to 10 million Americans have an eating disorder, according to the National...
Heading Off Eating Disorders
... or out of control in other aspects of their life. Though they don't necessarily have an eating disorder... or the emotional problems exhibited by older, eating-disordered children. Though not the cause of their child...'s eating disorder, parents profoundly influence their child's attitudes toward food, eating, and self...
10 Best Children's Hospitals
These pediatric centers -- leaders in Parents' exclusive evaluation -- routinely heal sick children whom local hospitals could no longer help. Find out where to go if the unfathomable ever happens to your family.
Why Are Kids So Angry?
Kids are kids, which means that when they get mad, they're not especially diplomatic about it. What's disturbing, though, is that more and more kids seem unable to stop at ordinary expressions of childish ire. "I see hundreds of kids each year, and I'm shocked by the level of aggressiveness I'm observing," says Edward Christophersen, Ph.D., a psychologist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO.
15 Ways to Get Your Kids to Eat Better
A nutritionist who's also the mother of 7-year-old triplets gives tried-and-true tips for getting your child to eat vegetables, drink milk, try new foods, and more.
Monitoring What Kids Eat at School
From doughnuts at class parties to pizza in the cafeteria, the food your child gets at school can be seriously unhealthy. But whose job is it to monitor what kids eat?
