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 ...

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

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

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

High ultraprocessed food (UPF) consumption during early childhood is associated with obesity development, primarily ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...

Harlem in the ‘Ham will take place Saturday night to raise money for Healthy Happy Kids, the MHERC’s childhood obesity prevention program. The fundraising event at The Fennec will be hosted by the UAB ...

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 ...

"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.