Beaufort and Jasper County teachers spent the day talking about how they can help their students become healthier and commit to a lifestyle change.

Worried about your child’s weight? You can do more than just nag him or her about eating too much junk food. Implementing three healthy family habits—eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV—may help.

Parents are often shown their child’s growth chart—a graph that plots where a child falls in relation to peers in terms of height and weight—but it turns out, few of them know how to interpret the information.

For years and years, our average life expectancy has surpassed that of our parents. But the skyrocketing childhood obesity rate has experts concerned that trend could be ending.