Being able to draw accurate conclusions from childhood obesity trials is important to make advances in reversing the obesity epidemic. However, obesity research sometimes is not conducted or reported ...

BATON ROUGE—"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical's Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory's Dr. Amanda Staiano ...

Obesity is the most prevalent nutrition-related pediatric problem in the United States. Most child obesity prevention interventions have not been effective. Although there has been disagreement ...

New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12-15 May) has, for the first time, quantified the impact of different aspects of childhood obesity on ...

The promotion of sugary drinks and unhealthy foods is monitored, to some extent, in a growing number of countries across Europe. Under current legislation in the UK, for example, food and drink ...

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Newly developed risk scores synthesize genetic information into an easy-to-interpret metric that could help clinicians identify young children most at risk of developing obesity. The study, led by ...

An inexpensive measure of obesity in children and adolescents that could replace body mass index (BMI) has been identified in a new study as waist circumference-to-height ratio. This measure detected ...

Analysis of survey results has revealed that in women, obesity is linked to various social and economic factors. In addition, this study is the first in Japan to illuminate the connection between ...

UB childhood obesity experts are praising a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics that rigorously assessed how the home environments of young children who are genetically at high risk for obesity ...