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How Bribing Kids Gets Them to Eat Their Vegetables

Rewards for eating yucky vegetables really makes kids like them—and the effect sticks.

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Are Cap’n Crunch, Ronald McDonald, Toucan Sam, and the Keebler Elves Headed the Way of Joe Camel?

The message from Washington: Make products healthier or stop advertising to kids.

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Fighting Childhood Obesity Through "5-2-1-0 a Day"

Quantifying the fight against childhood obesity.

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Beyoncé's Killing It with These "Let's Move" Videos

Check out Beyoncé's new video for the Let's Move campaign against childhood obesity. It's really fun.

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Jamie Oliver Still Isn't Offering Real Solutions, But Maybe That's Fine From Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to Beyoncé, Battling Childhood Obesity

The new season of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution probably won't offer any practical solutions to childhood obesity. But maybe it only needs to be fun.

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Why Doesn't the Los Angeles Unified School District Want Jamie Oliver's Help?

LAUSD has banned the popular chef from filming the second season of Food Revolution in the city's public schools. What gives?

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Kids Watch Thousands of Hours of Fast Food Advertisements (Almost None of It's Healthy)

Fast food Ad watch: Out of 3,039 likely meal combinations, only about a dozen met nutrition standards the researchers set out for preschoolers.

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GOOD Design Daily: 17 Ways to Get Kids to Eat Healthy Food

IDEO's problem-solving platform OpenIDEO publishes the findings from its first challenge: Jamie Oliver's quest to introduce kids to healthy eating.

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Could Urban Planning Reduce Childhood Obesity?

In the 19th and 20th century architects, urban thinkers and landscape architects like Fredrick Law Olmsted designed our cities and neighborhoods...