In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of ...

Background: Obesity is a complex, chronic, stigmatized disease whereby abnormal or excess body fat may impair health or increase the risk of medical complications, and can reduce quality of life and ...

New York lawmakers are pushing to strengthen laws banning false, predatory marketing and advertising for unhealthy foods to curb childhood obesity.

A new guideline to help health care providers manage obesity in children and adolescents takes a patient-centred approach, emphasizing behavioural and psychological supports that focus on outcomes ...

According to newly published obesity data, the global costs of overweight and obesity are predicted to reach US$ 3 trillion per year by ...

Kavitha Cardoza, a journalist for the Hechinger Report, is one of the few people who has looked into education outcomes for kids with childhood obesity. And there's one trailblazer in Arizona trying ...

Study finds a 50% rise in overweight and obesity among adolescents in England, increasing from 22% in 2008–2010 to 33% in ...

What is our current understanding of how differences in sex can affect obesity prevalence, comorbidities, and treatment ...

While Canadian statistics are lacking, severe obesity appears to ... which we can begin to advocate and educate toward establishing a new standard of obesity care for children and adolescents – they ...

That kind of collaborative and inclusive approach should be what all doctors and nurses take when treating children struggling with obesity, say the authors of new Canadian clinical practice ...

Note – this is an early press release from the European Congress on Obesity in Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May. Please credit the congress when using this research.* New research to be presented at this year ...