childhood obesity

Get tips on how to work with your kid’s doctor to help your overweight child and deal with childhood obesity.

Junk food sales in schools, long blamed for contributing to childhood obesity, do not make a difference overall in the weight of middle school students, according to a new study.

First lady's video counts ways to get kids moving First lady's video counts ways to get kids moving Michelle Obama says she'll try anything to get kids up and moving — and she has.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Social safety net programs that reduce psychosocial stressors for low-income families also ultimately lead to a reduction in childhood obesity, according to research by University of Illinois economist Craig Gundersen.

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(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) University of Illinois scientists from a variety of disciplines have teamed up to examine the factors that contribute to childhood obesity.

Why? Because individual researchers have found that the problem is too complicated for any of them to tackle alone.Strong Kids team members are looking at such diverse factors as genetic predisposition, the effect of breastfeeding, how much TV a child watches, and the neighborhood he lives in, among many others.

In an effort to combat childhood obesity – the most serious health crisis facing today’s youth – a working group of four federal agencies today released for public comment a set of proposed voluntary principles that can be used by industry as a guide for marketing food to children.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District says he wants to stop offering chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk to students as part of an attempt to curb childhood obesity....

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NEW YORK – U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin today joined New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley and a group of celebrities and area teenagers in downtown Manhattan to celebrate First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to end childhood obesity within a generation, launched one year ago this week.