6 things to do if your child’s weight is beyond the ideal range – and 1 thing to avoid
It’s important to help our kids maintain a healthy weight. But sometimes well-intentioned interventions can cause more harm ...
iaea.org8 年
Childhood obesity
Overweight and obesity in childhood are associated with increased risk of obesity and related non-communicable diseases in adulthood, potentially contributing to premature death. Stable isotopes are ...
WebMD4 年
Child Obesity Causes & Treatments
One of the biggest health problems among American children today is obesity. And the diabetes that follows obesity. And rates of obesity have almost tripled among children in many parts of the ...
Baylor College of Medicine10 年
Understanding BMI
The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.
BBC9 个月
Child obesity in pandemic could have lifelong effects, study says
Tens of thousands of children who became overweight or obese during the pandemic could face "lifelong health consequences", researchers say. Obesity rates rose sharply among 10 and 11-year-olds in ...
Forbes1 年
New Guidelines On Childhood Obesity Are Met With Some Resistance
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently released updated clinical guidelines on the management of obesity in children. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) designated obesity ...
BBC8 个月
BMI outdated for measuring childhood obesity, Bristol study says
Changing how children are measured for obesity to a new system could be more accurate, a study has concluded. It revealed the traditional method of using Body Mass Index (BMI) is not as useful in ...