An expert explains how food content affects children’s brains and bodies. Read ahead to learn how dopamine, cravings, and screen habits create unhealthy eating patterns and what parents can do.

Experts call for stronger regulation of digital food marketing to counter the increasing risk for obesity and teens’ ...

A major new study has found that children and adolescents ... and impact of unhealthy food marketing via different types of media on young people’s eating behaviour,” said lead author ...

Researchers have long known that junk food advertising can prompt children to eat more. But a new study, presented this week at the European Congress on Obesity in Málaga, Spain, goes further — ...

Those children with a higher body mass index also showed a "greater responsivity" to the food adverts, experts found. The Government is introducing a ban on the targeting of junk food adverts at ...

Children and teenagers who watch junk food advertisements consume more calories during the day, regardless of the type of media used, a new UK-led study has found. Researchers said just five ...

A personal situation described in a viral Reddit post has drawn thousands of reactions as a man shared that he will not travel with his brother's children ... kids only eat junk food." ...

Eating cereal for breakfast may be a habit you want to break, either for yourself or your kids. A recent study finds newer cereals have more sugar, fat and salt.

Researchers at McMaster University investigated the relationship between ultra-processed food (UPF ... are ready-to-eat, pre-packaged foods, often high in sodium, sugar and unhealthy fats ...

For ages, dietary patterns have been linked to mental health, but there is little evidence on how food and drink affect ... increased risk of depression with unhealthy dietary patterns.

Health campaigners have called on the Government to take urgent action to protect infants and young children following a study that found top brands are selling sugar-heavy, nutritionally poor baby ...

It found that 41% of main meals marketed for children had sugar levels that were too high and that 21% of ready-to-eat fruit products ... despite recent progress – such as restrictions on junk food ...