The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again ...

Pediatric obesity was associated with a higher prevalence of iron deficiency but not a higher prevalence of iron deficiency anemia.

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

CHILDREN as young as ten have had hip replacements on the NHS because they are so fat, shock figures show. They are going under the knife as childhood obesity levels soar, with one in three now ...

Around one in eight children between the ages of two and ten in England are obese, with childhood obesity in some deprived areas rising to as many as one in four. In 2022, US researchers concluded ...

High consumption of ultraprocessed foods containing high levels of added sugars, saturated fat, and sodium is associated with obesity in early childhood, especially in boys.

The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of obesity was seen for children and adolescents, according to data published ...

The federal government acknowledges that food marketing campaigns have a significant factor on what we eat. Should Canada restrict food ads to children?

Keeping kids healthy can be a big job. From the day their children are born, parents ferry them to and from medical offices, ...

From 2013-2014 to August 2021-August 2023, there were small increases in the percentage of children and adolescents with obesity, as well as in adults with severe obesity (but not obesity). There were ...

A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that advertising drives sales of high-sugar cereals market to children.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...