Children’s eating habits are strongly influenced by their parents' weight status, with those having overweight or obese ...

While Sole-Smith's book is a New York Times bestseller ... the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for treating children with obesity. 'We cannot solve anti-fat bias by making fat kids ...

One of the biggest health problems among American children today is obesity. And the diabetes that follows obesity. And rates of obesity have almost tripled among children in many parts of the ...

Multi-omics architecture of childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction uncovers biological pathways and prenatal determinants. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56013-7 ...

Overweight and obesity in childhood are associated with increased risk of obesity and related non-communicable diseases in adulthood, potentially contributing to premature death. Stable isotopes are ...

A genetic study of childhood obesity in about 6,400 school-going children aged 9-18 years has found that socioeconomic status significantly modulates the inherent genetic susceptibility to obesity.

Overall, there would be 18 different criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity in adults, and 13 for children and teenagers. Pre-clinical obesity would involve excess weight that isn’t affecting ...

Children with traumatic experiences in their early lives have a higher risk of obesity. But as our new research shows, this risk can be reduced through positive experiences. We found children from ...

The drive to tackle child obesity has stalled with a raft of measures stuck in Brexit backlog, it is being claimed. A ban on energy drink sales to under-16s, clearer calorie labelling and a ...

Strategies for tackling obesity in England have been much talked ... any chance of getting close to its target of halving childhood obesity by 2030. Prof Dame Sally Davies says children are ...