The rising numbers of overweight children have sparked intense discussions among parents, healthcare providers, and ...

The best way to protect your kids from health risks of obesity is to take charge of their food habits along with enrolling them in calorie burning activities while having fun. Childhood Obesity ...

A new study suggests that boys who become overweight in their early teens risk damaging the genes of their future children, ...

Obesity has been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases in the last year, the BBC has learned. Some doctors now believe in extreme cases overfeeding a young child should be seen as a form of ...

“By fostering early-life responsive parenting practices, we can help establish healthy growth trajectories that may reduce the risk of obesity as children grow,” senior researcher Jennifer ...

Review findings highlight that inculcating obesity risk-mitigating habits in children before the establishment of obesity-risk behaviors (during adolescence and adulthood) would substantially ...

The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. That’s much easier said than done. We know how to treat ...

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 ...

The forecast equates to 356 million children aged 5–14 years and 390 million aged 15–24 years, with one in six facing obesity. The staggering rise in global obesity among young people has ...