parenting

Whether your children are at school, or home on holidays, it can be really difficult coming up with healthy kids lunch ideas day after day to keep them interested.

We're all extremely busy these days, so the last thing we need is to get complicated at lunchtime.

But, what should your child's lunch contain?

Kids are fat. It's hard not to be, every junk food, candy bar and sugary breakfast cereal has a cartoon character slapped on it.

The WHO estimates 22 million children under the age of 5 are overweight worldwide.

But, even with all these fat kids running, parents in Australia don't realize their kids are overweight.

I was completely shocked and horrified when I came across an article recently in BBC News, stating some parents are attributing their children's dietary foibles to an eating disorder, rather than simply bad behavior.

In the interview, Dr Su Laurent discusses how she spends a significant amount of her clinical time seeing healthy young children whose parents are convinced their child has something seriously wrong with them.

Apparently the apple does fall far from the tree - at least when it comes to eating apples.

In what researchers have called a "surprising" study, it seems as though mom and dad's healthy eating doesn't rub off on their offspring as much as once thought. The study, authored by Dr. Youfa Wang, and published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, showed only a weak correlation between parents and their children's eating habits.