A new national study conducted by UT-Austin’s Paul von Hippel and the University of Iowa’s David Frisvold found that many schools failed to comply with the P.E. time requirements. The researchers ...

Trends in the obesity rate began a steady upward climb in the early to mid-seventies. Likewise, the first home gaming systems were released in the early 1970’s and we’ve been flooded with new screen ...

A new Lancet study reveals a staggering reality: childhood obesity in the U.S. has surged to epidemic levels, with one in three young people now overweight or obese. Our country’s physical and fiscal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new UNICEF report finds that more school-age children are now obese than underweight, with 188 million affected worldwide. Rates ...

A team of public health officials, school nursing staff and volunteers measured the heights and weights of more than 4,500 elementary school students across New Mexico in the fall. That data, ...

The UK Government is scrapping high-sugar and deep-fried foods from school menus across the country in a bid to tackle the ...

The World Health Organization has classified obesity as a chronic disease and determined that it is reaching epidemic proportions globally. Closer to home, the state Department of Health says ...

The prevalence of pediatric obesity has greatly increased over the past several decades, affecting both males and females among all racial and ethnic groups, and bringing with it comorbidities that ...

Measurement and diagnosis. How big is normal ? : Quantifying children's body size ; Measuring up : Height-weight standards and diagnosis ; Sugar, spice, frogs, snails : The composition of the fat ...

Officials say stricter standards could reshape what millions of children eat each day but questions remain over cost and ...

April 30, 2009 — Editor’s note: Childhood obesity remains a significant health challenge today. From 2003 to 2006, 16.3% of children and adolescents aged 2 through 19 were overweight, defined as a ...

When family medicine Dr. Abhilasha Sharma looked at Christina Almanza’s pre-checkup adolescent survey, she noticed her 16-year-old Merced patient’s weight had increased 15 pounds since her last visit.