Children's Nutrition he biggest nutritional problem of American kids is not a lack of any nutrients. Instead, its an overdose of calories.
Parents spend too much energy trying to get children to eat more.
Kids won't starve themselves. When they are hungry, they will eat. Trying to get children to join the clean plate club is not only a waste of time, it's helping turn American kids into the world's heaviest children. Rates of childhood obesity have doubled in the past 20 years. Part of the problem lies in our perception of how much food children need.