One in 10 reception children and more than a fifth in Year 6 (22.2%) are now living with obesity, according to new figures.

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Obesity, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, stress at a young age from career goals and irregular sleep are all triggers ...

Childhood obesity is a growing global crisis, with projections indicating over 250 million affected by 2030. This epidemic ...

You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to know that America’s children have a weight problem. In the classroom and on the playground, across socioeconomic and racial groups, kids have been getting ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy (12-15 May) shows that having obesity in childhood is associated with a more than doubling of the risk of ...

Obesity Canada has published an updated guideline for managing obesity in children and adolescents. An earlier guideline for managing obesity in adults, which was published almost 20 years ago, added ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Published in Obesity and Endocrinology, ...

New report makes ambitious recommendations for PE requirements. May 23, 2013— -- An Institute of Medicine report out today makes some ambitious recommendations for physical education requirements ...