Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists at the University of Leeds. Researchers from ...

More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity ...

While childhood trauma on its own can often predict disordered eating and a poor relationship with food in adults, according to a 2022 study, growing up as an overweight kid is its own kind of trauma ...

HealthDay News — Less than one-quarter of parents with overweight children recall their health care provider telling them that their child is overweight, according to study results study published ...

What new research has discovered about rates of obesity among kids and adolescents — and what experts say about it. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) Excess weight and obesity in ...

The World Health Organization reports that hundreds of millions of children across the globe qualified as overweight or obese in 2022. According to the WHO, in 2022 37 million children under the age ...

Children who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop schizophrenia as adults, according to a recent study. But adults with excess weight seem to have a lower risk of both schizophrenia and ...

KENT COUNTY, MI – Four in 10 Kent County children were identified as overweight or obese in a new local report on childhood obesity. That’s higher than the statewide average of 32.6% of Michigan ...

Keith Ayoob answers the question: 'Why is My Athletic Child Overweight?' February 1, 2009 -- Question: My child plays sports and runs around all the time but is still overweight. What am I doing wrong ...

Is Santa going to bring your child another computer or video game this Christmas? If your teen is typical, he or she probably spends untold hours in front of the computer or television rather than ...