Two of the distinguished in the latest edition of the Fronteras del Conocimiento FBBVA, endocrinologist Daniel J. Drucker and ...

Obesity in India is a family problem, not an individual one, with sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets leading to weight ...

The urgent directive follows alarming findings by Lancet, the British medical journal, that projected a surge in overweight ...

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Learn how to prevent obesity and help your child get to a healthy weight. Skip to main content . Home ; ... not all children with a family history of obesity will be overweight.

Our therapeutic education program was started seven years ago at the Pediatric Department of Ferrara Hospital. Eligible children included only Caucasian overweight and obese children and ...

As medications like Ozempic transform the health of millions of Americans, some families are discovering a surprising side effect: family members who are not taking the drugs are changing their ...

A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI — commonly used to measure obesity and health ...

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

Reducing obesity in children tends to involve family or school-based programs. On a social level, public health initiatives need to make nutritious foods more affordable and available.

The study authors “strongly” link colon cancer in young people to obesity, family history of the illness, inflammatory bowel disease and symptoms such as stomach pain and rectal bleeding.