New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that having an overweight or obesity trajectory during childhood is associated with ...

This study adds another layer of concern, showing that it also raises the risk of long-term obesity in children. The UK study emphasizes that maternal health behaviors have far-reaching ...

A study finds that factors beyond a person's control, like socioeconomic status and whether their mom smoked or was obese, can influence whether they are overweight or obese as teenagers or adults.

The forecast equates to 356 million children aged 5–14 years and 390 million aged 15–24 years, with one in six facing obesity. The staggering rise in global obesity among young people has ...

A mom's health and lifestyle choices can affect her kids' risk of obesity as adults, a new study says. Specifically, a child is three to four times more likely to become an obese adult if their ...

The numbers are alarming but not surprising if you’ve been to a playground lately. Childhood obesity rates have skyrocketed over the past few decades, leaving parents scrambling for solutions ...

They also looked at participants' weight between ages 16 to 42, a range that spans the rise in obesity rates in the United Kingdom. The data came from the 1958 National Child Development Study ...

Ron DeSantis, called out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday for continuing to recommend the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for babies and children, describing it as an "utter ...

Childhood obesity is also an area of concern: the percentage of children under 5 who were overweight rose from 2.1% to 3.4% from 2015-16 to 2019-21, as per NFHS data. With older children the ...

It is estimated that up to 1.9 billion people worldwide will be living with obesity in 2035. Childhood obesity is expected to increase by 100% between 2020 and 2035. About 1 in 4 people will have ...