Obesity is a chronic disease with many contributing factors, including family history, access to healthy foods, hormonal and metabolic conditions and even environmental factors such as how “walkable” ...
Researchers studying a protein linked to a rare, severe disease have made a discovery that sheds light on how cells meet ...
Obesity affects more than 14 million children in the US. Typically, in adults, obesity is expressed by body mass index (BMI), ...
Research shows that a child’s cardiovascular risk factors can affect their health as adults. Experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama recommend that parents start ...
The benefits of urban gardening are plentiful, but working specifically with the next generation "empowers the child to be a ...