Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As any parent who's taken their child to a birthday party knows, a single bite of cake can appear to send your kid's energy levels ...

Birthday parties tend to blur together in memory. Cupcakes are piled high with neon frosting and the hiss of soda cans cracking open. Then, noise follows fast. Kids dart between rooms, voices bounce ...

Last year, I wrote about a study that showed cereal companies market the cereals with the sugariest nutritional profiles to kids, essentially encouraging children to choose Froot Loops over, say, ...

Current U.S. dietary guidelines recommend no consumption of added sugar from before a baby is even born until they're 2 years old. But most children are exposed to added sugar from a very early age, ...

Amy Reichelt receives funding from NHMRC and ARC. She is affiliated with PurMinds Neuropharma. It’s a Saturday afternoon at a kids’ birthday party. Hordes of children are swarming between the spread ...

One of the reasons that humans have grown to love sugar is because it’s essential for the proper functioning of our body (especially our big brains). Sugar is a form of carbohydrate, and our body ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Mills Inc is lowering the amount of sugar in its children's breakfast cereals to no more than 10 grams per serving from 11 grams a year ago, the latest move from a U.S.