Weight Loss & Diets

The key to shedding pounds is choosing foods that fight hunger.

Does your child need to lose weight? We'll help you talk about it without hurting her feelings.

Use this important, quick screening index to identify if your child is underweight, overweight, or obese.

How parents can talk to their plus-size tweens and teens about feeling good about their bodies.

Help your child trim off those excess pounds.

These super healthy snack ideas are easy to make and even more fun to eat.

Get your kids off to a good and healthy start -- without any fuss.

Teens may be tight-lipped when it comes to sex, especially when approached by their parents. Suggest your child check out these online resources as a way to springboard into important conversations.

Fourteen million American children have a mental health disorder, but most insurance plans don't adequately cover mental health, and policy makers have different ideas on how to best address this problem. We spoke to Parents advisor Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, child psychiatrist and director of the New York University Child Study Center, about what he thinks is needed -- and why.

Keep it simple with these easy ideas to make school lunches healthy and fun.

Advice for parents on how to talk to teens about sex, from parenting expert Jan Faull, MEd.

Load your shelves with these delicious, nutritious foods, and we promise that your kids will stop begging you for junk food.

Make the most of your upcoming weekend, and plan for one (or more!) of these fun outdoor activities!

Parenting Expert Jan Faull, MEd, suggests an approach to helping around the house and teaching kids how to manage money.

Jan Faull, MEd, on deciding on a high school curfew for teens.

Toss out the junk food and start making snack time fun again! Check out these 20 kid-friendly ingredients that make great snacks, plus an easy recipe for each one.

Although diabetes is definitely on the rise, media hype and misconceptions keep many parents from getting the whole picture about the illness -- or from understanding the best ways to help kids avoid or manage it. "Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children after asthma, but the percentage of kids who have it is still relatively low," says Parents advisor Lori Laffel, MD, chief of the pediatric, adolescent, and young-adult section at Harvard's Joslin Diabetes Center. That's reassuring news, but if your child is one of the kids at risk, the threat to his health is very real. Here are five important truths about this serious illness.

Improve your child's body image and attitudes toward food.

Childhood obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic. Could your kid become one of the statistics? The risk may be greater than you think.

Jan Faull, MEd, advises parents on how to deal with their kids' public make-out sessions.