Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The effects of childhood obesity can have negative impacts into adulthood if left untreated. Fox advises ...

Something striking just happened in global nutrition: As of 2025, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight. According to UNICEF’s new Child Nutrition Report, about 9.4 ...

The scientific literature already contains robust evidence that obesity, whether maternal or paternal, can lead to metabolic ...

Children and adolescents should be proactively evaluated and treated for obesity, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics around childhood obesity. The guidelines note that ...

New research published Tuesday concludes that the rising rate of extreme childhood obesity—well above the usual BMI cutoff—has become a "public health emergency." Reading time 4 minutes Many Americans ...

Children were more likely to undergo an evaluation if they had public insurance, had a higher BMI, had English as a primary ...

Clinicians are encouraged to screen all children from 6 to 18 years of age for obesity by making body mass index (BMI) measurement part of usual care, according to new draft recommendations on ...

NHS data lays bare Britain’s child obesity crisis - with kids as young as four treated for severe obesity because they weigh ...

It's no secret that childhood obesity is a problem in the US. Over 2 million American kids are considered "super obese." As a dietitian I have seen and counseled several severely obese children and ...