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Chronic conditions including obesity up in US kids: study
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 lasted [...]
Continue reading...3 Simple Steps Can Cut Childhood Obesity
8. February 2010
A new study finds three household routines lower the risk of obesity in children: having family dinners, getting enough sleep and limiting weekday TV time. Four-year-olds in homes that followed these practices had a nearly 40 percent lower prevalence of obesity than children who did none of these things. Of course childhood obesity - a soaring phenomenon [...]
Continue reading...Federal Panel Urges Obesity Screening for Kids Ages 6 and Up
19. January 2010
A federal panel of health experts has issued new recommendations encouraging U.S. doctors to screen children aged 6 and older for obesity, and to offer them a referral to intensive weight management programs when necessary. The recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) update those issued in 2005. At that time, the group said [...]
Continue reading...Puberty May Trigger Sleep Apnea in Overweight Kids
15. December 2009
Among teenagers, being overweight or obese increases the risk of obstructive sleep apnea, but the same does not appear to be true for younger children, Australian researchers have found. In sleep tests conducted on 234 white children, aged 2 to 18, who were referred for evaluation of snoring and possible obstructive sleep apnea, the researchers found [...]
Continue reading...Missing DNA can promote childhood obesity
7. December 2009
Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers report. The British researchers checked the DNA of 300 children who’d become very fat, on the order of 220 pounds by age 10. They looked for deletions or extra copies of DNA segments. They found evidence that several [...]
Continue reading...Kids should get moving to avoid obesity
28. November 2009
Vigorous exercise may be an especially good way to keep kids lean, but sitting around, in and of itself, doesn’t appear to have a major role in making them fat, new research shows. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of reasons to avoid too much sedentary “screen time,” Dr. Ulf Ekelund of the MRC Epidemiology Unit in [...]
Continue reading...Lack of exercise may not explain teen obesity
11. November 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most U.S. teenagers are not as active as they should be, but a lack of exercise does not seem to account for rising rates of teen obesity, a new study finds. Using government survey data collected between 1991 and 2007, researchers found that in recent years, U.S. teens have averaged more [...]
Continue reading...Should Parents of Overweight Kids Lose Custody?
19. October 2009
Should morbidly obese children be taken from their parents? That’s the question an increasing number of countries are grappling with amid the Western world’s obesity epidemic. The latest case to make headlines concerns a Scottish couple who lost custody of two of their six children on the basis of what was, their lawyer claims, a failure [...]
Continue reading...Overweight Moms More Likely to Have Asthmatic Kids
20. May 2009
TUESDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) — A mother’s weight may have lasting effects not just on her own health but on the respiratory health of her children as well. “Children with asthmatic parents are at an increased risk of asthma if the mother is overweight before pregnancy,” said H.A. Smit, head of the department of prevention [...]
Continue reading...Obese children more likely to have allergies
5. May 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Obese children and adolescents are 26 percent more likely to have some kind of allergy, especially to food, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said it is not clear from the study if obesity causes allergies, but it suggests controlling obesity in young people may be important for lowering rates of childhood allergies [...]
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