No Place in a Child's Diet, and the World Is Acting
Pediatric authorities say caffeinated energy drinks have no place in a child's diet, and a growing list of countries are now banning sales to minors outright.
Children's Health
Does My Kid Need It?
When a supplement is and isn't warranted
11 entries. 6 rest on strong human evidence. Ordered with the best evidenced first.
11 entries in Does My Kid Need It?
A Child's Relationship With Blood Sugar
How much added sugar a child takes in, and how much arrives as a fast liquid hit, shapes their blood-sugar regulation, weight, and long-term metabolic risk.
"Natural," "Clean," and "Supports" Explained
"Supports immunity," "clean," "natural," "doctor-formulated", the words on a kids' supplement are mostly marketing, and the rules behind them are looser than they sound.
The Question to Ask Before the Aisle
For most healthy children eating a reasonably varied diet, the honest pediatric answer is no, with a few specific, important exceptions.
What a Percentile Does and Does Not Mean
A growth percentile compares a child to other children, it is not a grade, and a low or high number is usually not a problem on its own.
Built for Athletes, Marketed to Everyone
Gatorade, Powerade, and Prime Hydration are designed for prolonged hard exercise, not everyday thirst, and for most kids plain water is the right answer.
When Limited Eating Does (and Does Not) Need a Supplement
Picky eating is one of the few situations where a children's multivitamin can genuinely make sense, but most picky phases still do not require one.
How Kids Actually Eat Now
Children now graze far more than past generations, and whether that helps or harms depends almost entirely on what the snacks are.
How Childhood Changed, and What Tracked With It
A timeline of how children's free, outdoor, and creative play has shrunk, with the trends researchers say moved alongside it, presented as documented parallels, not proven cause.
Reading Past the Cartoon on the Bottle
A children's multivitamin is an unregulated, unstandardized product, and the cartoon on the front tells you nothing about what is, or is not, inside.
Influencers, Feeds, and the Sources Behind the Claims
A look, without verdicts on any individual, at where parents now get child-health information, who is speaking, and what incentives sit behind the claims.