Weight fluctuation and change in body composition with growth is a normal part of development. Apart from the first year of life, teenage years experience the most rapid increase in growth and ...

Have you ever wondered how many inches kids grow in a year? It can be bewildering to watch your child grow out of their clothes seemingly overnight, only to stay at one size for a while before hitting ...

The United States childhood obesity epidemic has been old news for some time. That is until the new weight loss drugs hit the market. The American Academy of Pediatrics is telling parents it is safe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Sindy Newman was initially reluctant to take on young patients but realised parents had no other options available - Jane ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File image of two children eating burgers Obese children as young as six could receive Ozempic-style weight-loss jabs after a ...

Parents attending an adult weight management programme, who were worried about their child's weight, would accept support and signposting to services for their child if it was offered, new research ...

An intervention to decrease parental stress and increase healthy nutrition reduced both early childhood obesity risk and parent stress, according to a new study in Pediatrics. As childhood obesity ...

Because obesity is a complex problem, we must be cautious when we accept easy answers for why children are gaining weight rapidly. Suppose we believe obesity is simply due to eating too much and not ...

There is a divide among some physicians about if and when children should use weight-loss drugs, which have surged in popularity among adults. In a recent study published in the New England Journal of ...

The study, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and supported by the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (Bristol BRC), suggests that children could be referred ...

A randomized controlled trial published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that fish oil supplementation during pregnancy can increase the risk of weight gain and metabolic syndrome ...