The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again ...

Adolescents who perceive themselves as overweight are three times more likely to consider committing self-harm compared to those who do not, regardless of whether the person is objectively overweight, ...

Pediatric obesity was associated with a higher prevalence of iron deficiency but not a higher prevalence of iron deficiency anemia.

Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

More than 150,000 people in the UK have MS, a devastating chronic immune disease that can cause problems with sight, writing, ...

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

Interestingly, while adult health insurance coverage was significantly lower than the U.S. national and Southeast averages, the child health insurance coverage in Georgia was comp ...

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse it, a study finds.

High ultraprocessed food consumption during early childhood is associated with obesity development, primarily in males.

Here, we explain the facts behind several more of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims during his two Senate hearings as nominee ...

A positive response to treatment for pediatric obesity has enduring health benefits into young adulthood, according to a study.

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...