Obesity Facts and Information

Moms’ full-time work tied to childhood obesity

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 [...]

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Is There an Obesity Tipping Point in Infancy?

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 [...]

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