Children and snacks are made for each other. Indeed, the smaller size of young kids' stomachs combined with their often frenetic activity levels pretty much requires that they nibble a little something between meals. Nutritionists have long suspected, however, that changes in America's snacking habits go a long way toward explaining why young people in the U.S. have grown so fat over the past 30 years. Just last month the Centers for Disease Control reported that 13% of children ages 6 to 11 are overweight, up from 11% in the early 1990s and 4% in the 1960s.
Now comes word that...