Nutrition

Hay fever: immunotherapy and other treatment options

Many children are plagued by pollen in spring. Specific immunotherapy or other treatment methods help to get through the hay fever season.

Protein consumption and muscle mania

Boys in particular are often prescribed a high-protein diet to boost their muscles. When does the fitness craze become dangerous?

Why do children love sweets so much?

Interview with Janna Scharfenberg about Ayurvedic nutrition for children. Why they love sweets in the Kapha phase and how parents can deal with this.

Child, eat something healthy!

We know what a healthy diet for children looks like: There is no lack of recommendations and no lack of heartfelt desire to implement them. What else?

What to cook for four greedy boys?

Always just pasta? What to cook for four adolescent boys and their appetites? Claudia Landolt shares her menu plan.

On the plate instead of in the bin

How can you shop so that there are as few leftovers as possible and how can you utilise them? Sustainability in the kitchen.

What should I cook? Simple recipes from the green pot

A selection of quick-to-prepare, everyday vegetarian dishes from the Greentopf for fussy children's palates.

High quality of life despite allergies

Allergies are annoying and can restrict quality of life. Strategies against an unbalanced diet and stress when the child eats out...

Eating breakfast like an emperor? How important is breakfast?

There's often not enough time for a balanced breakfast. That's not a bad thing - if a few points are taken into account

Mrs Stöckli, how do you go vegan without pointing fingers?

Franziska Stöckli developed the cookbook "Greentopf" with her students - the vegetarian supplement to the cookery school classic "Tiptopf".

Lunch instead of canteen

More and more parents are cooking together with other families. Tips and tricks for a successful lunch with a neighbouring family.

Coke and crisps for a snack?

Banning your child from cola won't help. Betty Bossi gives tips on how to make healthy eating appealing to your child instead.

«Mum, why don't you buy this too?»

Children's products are sweet and greasy - because children love them. But they are advertised as healthy so that parents will buy them.

Problems and arguments at the dinner table?

Danish family therapist Jesper Juul on problems at the dinner table, what parents can do if their child "doesn't eat" and other questions.

Fast, faster - healthy

Even if the working day is long and the time for cooking is often short: with these tips and tricks, you'll always have something healthy on the table.

Everyone at one table!

«Help, our son wants to eat a vegan diet!»

The son suddenly wants to eat a vegan diet. Everyone in the family of five eats "normally". Does the family have to adapt to their son and cook vegan food?

Little chefs

Children in the kitchen: Involving children in menu planning and preparation is fun - if parents follow a few tips...

Shopping with children doesn't have to be a nightmare

Shopping with children can be an ordeal - but it doesn't have to be. Tips for shopping that's fun...

On your marks, get set - sport!

Children are constantly on the move. This requires energy - good nutrition is important. But what does that mean in concrete terms? What should and shouldn't be on the table?

Living vegan for a better world

Sarah Heiligtag and Georg Klingler run the "Hof Narr" farm with four-year-old Nils and two-year-old Indra and live a vegan lifestyle.

Family solidarity with the allergy sufferer

Ella, 16, suffers from food allergies. Her parents Sandra and Andreas and brother Flynn, 12, have therefore turned their own diet upside down.

Healthy milk and bad sausage? Nutrition myths put to the test

Milk is healthy, children need meat, but sausage is dangerous. And vegans are raven parents? What's the truth behind these nutritional myths?

Raw and natural: eating like our ancestors

Sandra and Tanja's patchwork family eats raw food. When one of the children celebrates a birthday, even the cake is raw.