Not all children grow the same way. A new study from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program suggests that body weight changes in early childhood may be associated with ...

Michelle Obama is adding another fun element to her healthy kids campaign that seeks to tackle the issue of childhood obesity. Like her husband, the first lady has turned to hip-hop to demonstrate ...

Driven largely by increasing childhood obesity, this silent but serious condition poses long-term heart risks. For many years, high blood pressure was mostly a problem for adults. But today ...

The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the world has witnessed a tenfold increase in obesity in children and adolescents between five and 19 years old.

There is an increased focus in public discourse on growing obesity among adolescents. The seventh edition of Poshan Pakhwada, held last month, focused on childhood and adolescent obesity alongside ...

Childhood obesity is defined as having a body mass index at or above the 95th percentile for age and sex in children 2 and older. People have theorized for many years that obesity must be genetic ...

Further, the number of children with obesity in the U.S. continues to rise, with about 1 in 5 teens currently living with the condition, researchers said. To see whether age influences their risk ...

Notably, children with gradually increasing central obesity from birth were more likely to show early signs of metabolic and cardiovascular risk by age 10. This included elevated blood pressure ...

Obesity is a chronic disease related to excess body fat. Read on to learn more about how stigma plays a role. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Health professionals who treat children living with obesity have a ...

Some 3,514 individuals who had lived with obesity as children were compared with 16,809 individuals from the general population, matched for sex, year of birth and living area. All were born ...