In recent years, childhood obesity has become a growing concern ... What children eat plays a central role in their overall health. Building healthy habits early can create a strong foundation ...

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as they reach young ...

"We saw that the children born to mothers with PCOS generally had more central obesity, meaning they were larger around the ...

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators ...

The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. That’s much easier said than done. We know how to treat ...

Children who respond well to pediatric obesity treatment have markedly lower ... Science News, Oncology News Central, MedCentral, Northwestern magazine, and Nurse.com and was an editor at the ...

They are going under the knife as childhood obesity levels soar, with one in three now classified as overweight. At least nine youngsters aged between ten and 14 needed hip replacements as a ...

Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said. Ten years ago Gateshead Council used all the planning powers available at ...

The drive to tackle child obesity has stalled with a raft of measures stuck in Brexit backlog, it is being claimed. A ban on energy drink sales to under-16s, clearer calorie labelling and a ...

A meta-analysis revealed that exercise interventions effectively reduced blood pressure levels in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity, with notable effects seen in girls.

GPs should use their ‘clinical judgement’ to decide when a child’s obesity becomes a safeguarding concern because ... ethnic minority backgrounds are aware that they are prone to central adiposity and ...