Family Health

Parents can create interest in running by encouraging their kids to go on runs with them and by making the ...

Research has shown that children who lose weight are far more successful at keeping the weight off than adults who ...

Below are common allergy symptoms in children. It’s not just foods that can trigger these symptoms. Other triggers ...

“One of the biggest gifts we can give our children is a healthy lifestyle,” says Kimberly Gomer, MS ...

The more preparation you do, the more you reduce the temptation to pick up the phone and dial for greasy ...

At the Pritikin Family Health Camp, the whole family can bond while developing a healthy lifestyle ...

This year, opt for a summer vacation at Pritikin that will change your family’s life ...

The scientists, from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, focused on five key lifestyle factors: Not smoking Not being ...

Unfortunately, children and even some adults associate healthy food items with foods that are distasteful. This, however, isn’t ...

Healthy Kids Resource Guide Being healthy is extremely important to maintain a well balanced self. But sometimes we forget to ...

Did you know that Type 2 diabetes is more aggressive in youth than in adults? Kids and teenagers start suffering ...

Here are 8 winning healthy school lunch ideas for kids from the Pritikin Longevity Center’s nutritionists and chefs ...

There is a lot of attention these days on our nation’s childhood obesity epidemic, and that’s ...

Plenty! And it’s never too early to start. Childhood obesity is quickly becoming a national challenge. Almost a third ...

Can the family that gains together lose together? Timothy Gower finds out. Priscilla Marquard was resolute: Her family was going ...

There’s plenty of research showing that healthy eating habits and daily exercise can help children shed extra weight and ...

Never in our country’s history was it more important to teach our children, who are now suffering epidemic rates ...

In the largest study of its kind ever published, researchers concluded that obese children face a significantly higher risk of ...

Overweight children need more than a visit or two to the doctor to lose weight, asserts new research. What they ...

In a study presented in March at the American Heart Association’s annual conference on Cardiovascular Disease, Epidemiology and ...

On April 25 the Institutes of Medicine released it’s “Nutrition Standards for Foods in School: Leading the ...

The sugar plums and candy canes are gone. So are all those holiday hours your children probably spent lounging around ...

Though schools nationwide have in recent years come under sharp criticism for not offering enough physical activity and healthy food ...