Replacing sugary drinks with water could reduce the risk of child obesity, say researchers who counted how many calories children and teenagers down from sugary drinks.
Childhood obesity, on the rise for more than two decades, appears to be holding steady, a new study indicates.
... be bad parents who buy their kids sugary drinks but the one thing that cannot be linked to obesity are sugary drinks or the advertising departments at sugary drink companies. To prove this, Storey ...
A new study finds evidence that children who are obese or have high cholesterol show warning signs of heart disease.
... 575,000 Mexican-American women who are obese. A new study published in the journal Public ... conclude. "Public health efforts to reduce child obesity in disadvantaged populations are an important long ...
... around 10 per cent of all childhood obesity and about 14 per cent of adult morbid ... account for up to half of all cases of severe adult and child obesity.
Professor Philippe Froguel, one of the authors ...
... of obesity in pregnancy and how this can be addressed to improve both the health of mother and child.
Obesity during pregnancy also increases the risk of more serious conditions such as gestational ...
... research, led by Dr Katrina Turner from the University of Bristol Department of Community Based Medicine, has assessed primary care practitioners' views and experiences of treating childhood obesity.
About 14 per cent of Canadian girls and 11 per cent of boys were considered obese at the end of a six-year study, according to a new Statistics Canada report.
Retailers and food manufacturers in the U.S. launched a national effort Monday aimed at helping to reduce obesity, especially in children, by 2015.
... the latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey results. Although a decrease in child obesity was found in smaller controlled studies, according to Hoelscher, the SPAN study is the first ...
... mass index could correspond with reduced risk of child obesity in the long term. The inner city ... place to play, walk or run.
Childhood obesity is associated with a variety of health problems including ...
Millions of people around the world jump around their living room as they wrestle with the controls of a Nintendo Wii. But can playing a simulated sport on the computer actually be GOOD for your ...
Banning fast-food advertising on television in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 per cent, researchers said.
Montreal children are fatter than those living outside the metropolitan area, according to a new study from Quebec's statistics institute.
