HealthDay News — Less than one-quarter of parents with overweight children recall their health care provider telling them that their child is overweight, according to study results study published ...

For the first time, more school-age children and adolescents worldwide are obese than underweight, according to U.N. findings — a trend driven in large part by a rapid increase in obesity among young ...

More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most parents find it acceptable to be told about their child's weight status, and the feedback has "minimal" adverse effects for most families, researchers from the UK ...

The World Health Organization reports that hundreds of millions of children across the globe qualified as overweight or obese in 2022. According to the WHO, in 2022 37 million children under the age ...

More children have overweight in regions with high rates of single parenthood, low education levels, low income and high child poverty. The pandemic may also have reinforced this trend. More children ...

While undernutrition remains a significant concern among children under 5 in most low- and middle-income countries, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing among school-aged children ...

CHICAGO and WASHINGTON, D.C. – SymphonyIRI Group, Inc., formerly named Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) announced today new research that reveals a surprising ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight children seen in the ER for an asthma flare-up are more likely to be admitted to the hospital than their non-overweight peers, according to a report in the ...

Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists at the University of Leeds. Researchers from ...

One in 10 children worldwide now has obesity, a report from UNICEF found, and the number of overweight children has more than doubled in low- and middle-income countries since 2000. By Simar Bajaj For ...