Icelandic cohort study found that better alignment with infant nutrition guidelines was associated with lower odds of obesity ...

A study of 130 children between the ages of 6 and 11 conducted by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil has identified that obesity alone can cause immediate damage to ...

Obesity in African American children is linked to widespread metabolic remodeling of lipoproteins, amino acids, and inflammatory markers.

Efforts to rein it in have failed. After a 2006 Institute of Medicine report linking food advertising to obesity risk, industry responded with voluntary self-regulation through the Children’s Food and ...

If you conduct community-based research, you have to understand the context”, says Christina Economos, Dean, Professor, and New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition ...