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

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

The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of ...

President Trump established by way of executive order a Make America Healthy Again Commission. However, much of what’s ...

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 ...

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

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.

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

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

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

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 ...