childhood obesity

While product labelling and weight reduction drugs may help reduce childhood obesity problems, a healthy diet is the key to a child's long-term health.

Once considered mainly an adult disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has taken a striking turn as a risk ...

Researchers from Stanford University sought to evaluate the impact of school programs that actively encourage children to keep ...

The potential lifelong consequences that weight-loss drugs could have on adolescents and children have a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, ...

An irreconcilable divide between the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and therapists and groups treating childhood eating disorders highlights ...

New guidelines on treating childhood obesity from the American Academy of Pediatrics call for early and aggressive treatment—including ...

The path to childhood obesity begins before birth and gets more complicated as children become the targets of ...

In January, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued its new clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and ...

For the first time in 15 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that doctors prescribe weight-loss ...

Youth sports leagues are a great way for children to get physical activity, develop teamwork, and create friendships. ...

Ask any new parent how their baby is doing and you will most likely get an update on ...

Preschoolers who turn in late turn out to be heavier teens, concludes a new study published in The ...

Senate committee urges overhaul of Canada's Food Guide to combat obesity OTTAWA—A Senate committee is calling for a ...

"I am a fat kid," declares spoken-word artist Travis Thompson, looking unflinchingly at the camera. Then he takes ...

As children are ever growing, appetites will fluctuate drastically. At times it seems like they might eat you ...

If you've ever taken a ride on that health club staple the stationary bike, chances are you took ...

Infants at risk for childhood and adult obesity have a better chance of not becoming overweight if they ...

Sleep-related breathing problems and chronic lack of sleep may each double the risk of a child becoming obese ...

Even small amounts of green and orange vegetables can improve the health of overweight and obese children, regardless ...

By Ethan A. Huff, contributing writer to Natural News With the poor quality of many of today's conventional meat ...

From our friends at HooplaHa, a great inspiration!  Dimitrios Verteouris lost 100 lbs in just six months by ...

A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine-led study suggests that parents of obese children often do ...

Pregnant women who eat in front of the TV may increase the risk for childhood obesity in their ...

A new study out of UNC Chapel Hill finds childhood obesity rates are not going down, despite a ...

Stacie has trouble saying "no" to her son four-year-old son, Jaylen, who, due to incessantly begging for food, ...

For more than a decade, childhood obesity has been on the increase—including rates of extreme obesity—new research shows. ...

You get to work. No time to leave for lunch. Stomach starts to rumble. Get distracted. Get tired. ...