Childhood obesity rates are rising and global figures don't make for easy reading. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as President Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services early Thursday, capping a ...

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

New research from the University of Birmingham and Aston University has found that putting lower-calorie meal choices at the ...

New research has found that putting lower-calorie meal choices at the top of a restaurant menu, and reducing the availability of high-calorie options, makes teenagers more likely to order the ...

New research shows that structuring restaurant menus to list lower-calorie meals first encourages teenagers to make healthier ...

The report linked adequate sleep duration to better emotional regulation, physical and mental health, attention, learning and ...

BATON ROUGE—"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical's Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory's Dr. Amanda Staiano ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many ... Instead, the goal is personal: what part of our ancestors’ diets could most benefit our health and wellness today? “One of the most ...

The family of a teenager killed alongside two others in ... Paying tribute, his mother Rebecca said: "Koby was genuinely one of the most kind, thoughtful, hardworking young men I have ever known ...

The data shows that young people who were obese during their teenage years had an 87% higher ... consequences of adolescent obesity. One of the most concerning findings of the study is the gender ...