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Changing Parental Behavior May Help Obese Kids Lose Weight
It’s hard to help overweight children lose weight, and keeping it off over the long-term is even tougher. But obese children whose parents took classes on the importance of healthy eating and exercise lost weight and kept it off for the next two years, according to a new Australian study. Researchers said the study shows [...]
Continue reading...Childhood Obesity Might Be Linked to Strain of Cold Virus
21. September 2010
At least part of the blame for childhood obesity might be traced to a unexpected cause — a certain strain of the virus that causes the common cold. New research shows that youngsters who were infected by adenovirus 36, which causes the common cold and slight gastrointestinal upset, were an average of 50 pounds heavier [...]
Continue reading...Obese kids’ feet found to be flatter and fatter
24. July 2010
It’s known that obese children tend to have “flatter” feet than their normal-weight peers, but it has been unclear whether that reflects a potential problem in the foot’s bone structure or simply extra fat padding. A new study suggests that it’s both. In general, people with “flat feet” have a lowered arch at the inside [...]
Continue reading...Childhood Obesity Boosts Risk of GERD
10. July 2010
Obese older children are at increased risk for developing the painful digestive disease known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), researchers from Kaiser Permanente in California report. In fact, extremely obese children have up to a 40 percent higher risk of GERD, while those who are moderately obese have up to a 30 percent higher risk [...]
Continue reading...School-Based Efforts May Help Curb Obesity in High-Risk Kids
28. June 2010
School-based efforts at better nutrition, more exercise and improved education about healthy living can help kids who are most at risk for obesity keep the weight off, compared to children in schools without such programs, a new study suggests. But the program failed to reduce the overall numbers of overweight and obese schoolchildren — those [...]
Continue reading...Moms’ full-time work tied to childhood obesity
14. June 2010
The growing number of full-time working moms in the past few decades could be one of the factors contributing to the concurrent rise in childhood obesity, new research hints. In a study of more than 8,500 UK adults followed since their birth in 1958, researchers found that the study participants’ young children were 50 percent [...]
Continue reading...Oregon has lowest rate of childhood obesity
5. May 2010
What’s the magic in Oregon that keeps kids lean? It’s a mystery health officials would like to solve as they admit all states are failing — by a mile — to meet federal goals for childhood obesity. Oregon has the nation’s lowest rate of hefty kids, according to a new government study, which found big [...]
Continue reading...Is There an Obesity Tipping Point in Infancy?
28. March 2010
If there is any reason for hope among the data on national obesity rates in the U.S. (the numbers should be familiar by now: two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children are overweight or obese in the country), it is that they finally seem to be leveling off. According to the most recently published [...]
Continue reading...More Kids Now Extremely Obese
18. March 2010
The obesity epidemic is hitting children harder than ever, with 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls classified as extremely obese in a California study, researchers from Kaiser Permanente report. The news is even worse for black and Hispanic kids: Among black teenage girls, 11.9 percent were classified as extremely obese, as were [...]
Continue reading...Chronic conditions including obesity up in US kids: study
20. February 2010
Chronic conditions including asthma, obesity and behavior disorders have become more common among US children in recent years, with environmental changes and more diagnoses partly to blame, a study published Tuesday shows. Researchers led by Jeanne Van Cleave, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston, looked at the prevalence of conditions that [...]
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