We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day (you've heard this before, right?). We also know that sitting down together for a meal with your kids is crucial to staying connected, informed, and close. After all, everyone's defenses are down as they stuff their faces with delicious food.

Even though breakfast can be a rush job when you're trying to get everyone out the door, you have enough time to bond over bagels. You just need to know the right questions to ask your kids in order to get the most information in the shortest amount of time. If you're looking for a quicker, better, more entertaining way to communicate with those guys, try these five questions out on your kids at breakfast tomorrow.

Mmm, BRAIN FOOD! Food for zombies? No, food that feeds your brain! A recent report shows that people who eat baked or broiled fish at least once a week may be protecting their brains against Alzheimer's and other brain problems. Eating fish regularly is key to brain health.

There's a good New Year's resolution: Eat fish once a week. Right... except fish can be awfully expensive. And what about all the mercury some fish carry around with them? Well good news -- getting fish on your table every week doesn't have to bust your grocery budget. Here are 6 affordable ways to enjoy Brain Food in 2012.

If you or someone in your household have yet to catch this season's flu or one of the many colds going around, you know it's coming. While we all just want to crawl into bed and cover up until it goes away, it's seriously important to get your vitamins and keep up your strength when fighting off these nasty bugs.

Unfortunately cookies and chocolate bars won't do the trick, so instead you're going to have to plan ahead. Soup is always a great warm-up in the winter weather, and many of them contain cold and flu elixirs that will make you feel better in no time. So either stock up at your grocery store or have a soup-making weekend and freeze enough to thaw out when you find yourself sniffling and coughing.

Here are the best soups for your health the next time you're knocked down with a cold or, worse, the flu. Pick it up, whip it up, or ask a kind soul to deliver these 7 soups to your door.

It's here everybody, the dreaded cold and flu season. So as you stay indoors, breathing other people's air, touching doorknobs, elevator buttons, wiping noses, and generally getting all germy, you're going to want to work on your defense. Since your best defense is always a good offense, it's time to get proactive and eat your way to great health.

While there may not be any magic food that can kill every germ, here is a list of the best foods that can help your body fight off the cold and flu, before it attacks.

You know that little box on the side of your food package that tells you about the calories and the sugar and the protein and a seemingly random selection of vitamins and minerals? A lot of nutritionists and consumers have been complaining for years that it's not as helpful as it should be.

Well the FDA has finally heard the rumblings and is redesigning the nutrition label. While they put their bureaucratic heads together, GOOD magazine, Art Center College of Design’s Designmatters, and Berkeley's school of journalism station News 21 ran a contest for the public to create their own ideas of improved food labels. Let's hope the government is paying attention to the best ideas -- and overlooking the less helpful ones.

Finally! A food manufacturer has brought to market a baked good that helps people chill out! No, no, it's not what you're thinking, I swear. These aren't the kind of baked goods you can find only at special dispensaries in Northern California or in "cafes" in Amsterdam. Lazy Cakes, brownies spiked with melatonin (a hormone our brains produce at night to help us drift off to sleep) and packaged with the tagline "relaxation baked in," are totes legal. They've been on sale for about six months and have sold millions nationwide. (Proving once and for all that we're all stress mess insomniacs -- yay!)

But now, some buzz kill legislators in Massachusetts want to do away with the snooze-supportive snack.