Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again ...

Pediatric obesity was associated with a higher prevalence of iron deficiency but not a higher prevalence of iron deficiency anemia.

More than 150,000 people in the UK have MS, a devastating chronic immune disease that can cause problems with sight, writing, ...

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse ...

High ultraprocessed food consumption during early childhood is associated with obesity development, primarily in males.

Eaten when a boy is aged three, these kinds of products were linked to obesity by the time the child reached five. However, the UPFs did not increase the risk of obesity for girls of the same age. The ...

The analysis included 6,713 participants in the Swedish Childhood Obesity Treatment Register (aged 6 to 17 years at baseline) who were receiving at least one year of obesity treatment and followed ...

Red meat’s micronutrient profile is especially valuable for young children and women of reproductive age, including pregnant women. In addition, the protein density of red meat is beneficial for ...