“Early intervention would be lifestyle change, and that can be extremely helpful, especially in younger adolescents who are ...

New analysis of 10,000 U.S. children links early smartphone ownership to higher obesity risk, depression and lost sleep.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a decline in obesity rates in Oklahoma, with data showing a ...

The State Department of Health is celebrating these results and crediting the progress, in part, to statewide initiatives meant to reduce chronic disease and improve quality of life.

Multi-component treatment approaches (addressing diet, physical activity, and/or other behaviours) may improve children's physical activity (measured objectively) when delivered in healthcare ...

A national advisory organization has come down on the side of behavioral interventions, not obesity medications, to help children 6 and older with high BMI improve their health, wading into the debate ...

The UK government’s 10 year plan commits to targeting childhood obesity through a series of measures that seemingly ignores ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).12 Without promoting literacy and understanding ...

Editor's Note: The March issue of Health Affairs is a thematic issue focusing on the child obesity epidemic and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Two days after the issue and an ...

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With access to unhealthy food soaring and physical activity levels declining, the World Obesity Federation predicts that between 2020 and 2035, Europe and Central Asia will experience a 61% increase ...

In Kentucky, nearly one in five youths from ages 6-17 are obese, according to new county-level data on measures of child well ...

The Omelette Parlor on Main Street is one of the many places that I like to have business meetings. I’ve been going there for over a decade. Over the years I’ve had many an occasion to have breakfast ...