It’s important to help our kids maintain a healthy weight. But sometimes well-intentioned interventions can cause more harm ...

“I don’t want you to lose weight!” she cried. “You’re comfy!” ...

In January of 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics released guidelines recommending the use of weight loss drugs as a way ...

Kids as young as 9 are dieting and vomiting to try to lose weight, research suggests. A study of almost 12,000 kids across the US, published as a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday ...

Ali Rogin speaks with Dr. Melanie Cree, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital Colorado, to learn more. Physicians are increasingly using weight loss drugs to treat obesity ...

Here are my top 10 habits to help you turn your dream of weight loss into a reality: 1. Evaluate your eating habits. Are you eating late at night, nibbling while cooking, finishing the kids' meals?

Two surgeons, and pediatric weight loss experts fromBrown University Health weighed in on this topic as obesity rates among children continue to climb. "We have fairly substantial data on what ...

After 10 years, the teens treated with weight-loss surgery still had an average 20% reduction in their BMI, researchers ...