If you’re wondering how your child might fare on a vegetarian diet, a new study offers some factors to consider. Children eating a vegetarian diet and children who ate meat were similar in terms of ...

Ensuring children eat well is a daily challenge, but balanced nutrition is key to their physical, emotional, and cognitive ...

Children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats that can affect their health and development early in life, throughout their youth and into adulthood. Writing in a forthcoming issue of ...

Two World Bank policy notes look at how economic slowdown and other factors in the Lao PDR are affecting food prices and child nutrition. Policy Note: Food inflation in the Lao PDR: Trends, Drivers ...

Economic status appears linked to increased risk of being born with a cleft palate or lip, new research suggests, building on past evidence that it can also result in delayed care and poorer outcomes.

9 October 2017 – A nutrition crisis, exacerbated by continuing violence, instability and displacement, is threatening the lives and futures of thousands of children in Mali, the United Nations ...

Gaps in height occurred even when the women drank less than the recommended amount of coffee and other caffeinated beverages. Exposure to caffeine in the womb, even low amounts, may lead to shorter ...