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

Juvenile diabetes commonly known as Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition that usually begins in childhood or ...

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 ...

A new study highlights a 50% increase in young people living with obesity or excess weight in a little more than a decade in ...

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The U.S. obesity rate is about 40%, according to a 2021-2023 survey of about 6,000 people. Nearly 1 in 10 of those surveyed reported severe obesity, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

On a week-to-week basis, fifth to ninth grade students will get to get their hands dirty by planting things like tomatoes, ...

Nonsmokers diagnosed with obesity-related cancers had lower risk for death if they adhered to American Cancer Society nutrition and physical activity guideline for cancer survivors, according to ...

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

While much of the recent GLP-1 saga has been written in the U.S., Novo Nordisk continues to expand its semaglutide empire ...

New research published in the Lancet finds that obesity related deaths are on the rise and the obesity epidemic continues to ...