Experts offer a variety of policy solutions to the childhood obesity crisis. Many are drawn from the anti-tobacco playbook — ...

Nearly 20% of children and young adults aged 2 to 19 years in the U.S. have obesity, according to the CDC. Childhood obesity ... Five-year EFS and OS rates served as the primary endpoints.

On the other hand, obesity among children is a rising problem in the US, affecting one in five kids in the six to 11 bracket, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and ...

The researchers — led by Ben Rader, the scientific director at Boston Children’s Hospital ... but severe obesity rates had gone up. The CDC data shows about 40% of adults in the U.S. have ...