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

Childhood obesity is influenced by diet, physical activity, genetics, and environmental factors, leading to significant health risks and psychological effects. The economic burden of childhood ...

Childhood obesity, fueled by sedentary lifestyles and sugary diets, is driving a surge in type 2 diabetes among children.

In the United States, one in five children are obese. Obesity is a chronic disease with many contributing factors; family history, access to healthy foods, hormonal and metabolic conditions ...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A deep learning model can predict the risk for obesity for young children using only routinely collected electronic health record (EHR) data, according to ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

Childhood obesity is one of the most common pediatric chronic diseases in the United States, affecting 1 in 5 children. It is also one of the most complex — driven not only by genetic and ...

Almost a third of children who live in the most deprived areas of England have obesity by the time they leave primary school—twice as many as those who live in the least deprived areas, an analysis ...

Obesity among children leaving primary school in England has fallen for the third year in a row, figures show. New NHS data shows 22.1% of children in Year 6 (aged 10 to 11) were obese in 2023/24, ...

More than a third of 10 and 11-year-olds in Plymouth are either obese or overweight. One in five year six children in the city (20.2%) were obese in the 2023/24 academic year, according to the ...