Background: Obesity is a complex, chronic, stigmatized disease whereby abnormal or excess body fat may impair health or ...

The statistics are staggering – according to the CDC, 19.7% of young people aged 2-19 suffer from obesity – but the solution, ...

A new guideline to help health care providers manage obesity in children and adolescents takes a patient-centered approach, ...

Particularly troubling is the speed at which childhood obesity is increasing — a trend that poses long-term risks to the ...

Surgical interventions can also be used to manage obesity among children. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y ...

McMaster researchers identified six early-life factors that influence obesity risk in South Asian children. The study ...

In this study, the authors aimed to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in England using routinely collected healthcare data. They also investigated the association ...

"We know that current measures of childhood obesity such as the body mass index (BMI) don't work well for South Asians ...