Keeping kids healthy can be a big job. From the day their children are born, parents ferry them to and from medical offices, ...

epidemiology of childhood obesity, and the relation to subsequent cardiovascular disease are addressed. All these issues underscore the crucial need for primary prevention of obesity in children ...

Educational campaigns and healthcare partnerships are also critical in promoting awareness about the risks of adolescent obesity and the importance of early intervention. Furthermore, prevention ...

A significant percentage of adolescents in the United States are living with hyperuricemia, a condition that is associated with obesity and risks for cardiometabolic complications, according to study ...

Ultraprocessed food consumption in preschoolers is associated with increased body fat, particularly in boys, underscoring the ...

"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical’s Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory’s Dr. Amanda Staiano and Dr.

The medical director of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Healthy Weight Initiative is sharing prevention tips and how to help ...

Over the past decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, now affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide.

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse ...

From 2013-2014 to August 2021-August 2023, there were small increases in the percentage of children and adolescents with obesity, as well as in adults with severe obesity (but not obesity). There were ...

In an interactive session on obesity, AIIMS Director Prof. M Srinivas emphasised that educating children about balanced ...