American Kids Consuming Fewer Calories New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that children in the United States consumed fewer calories in 2010 than they had 10 years earlier, according to a story by Sabrina Tavernise in Thursday's Times. It is a hopeful trend in the battle against childhood obesity, though health experts warned that the decrease was small. "To reverse the current prevalence of obesity, these numbers have to be a lot bigger," said Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. But they are trending in the right direction, and that's good news. Read more.