A new study suggests mothers’ genes could play an indirect role in shaping their children’s health, even when they aren’t ...

A study published in the Human Reproduction journal has concluded that an inflammatory diet is associated with a 15% higher ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental risk factors ...

As of 2019, Iowa’s childhood obesity rate is slightly above the national average. Among high school students, the state’s obesity rate is 17% compared to a nationwide 15.5%.

The Mediterranean diet has long been touted as one of the healthiest diets in the world, but childhood obesity in Greece has ...

The research team from the University of Bristol used a method called Mendelian randomization, which measures variation in genes to determine the effect of an exposure on an outcome. They looked ...

12. Williams DR, Braddock A, Houser M, Blair G, Browne N. Review of upstream social factors contributing to childhood obesity. Obes Pillars. 2022 Nov 14; 4:100040. doi: 10.1016/j.obpill.2022.100040.

Obesity and being overweight are based on BMI, or body mass index. This is calculated based on one’s height and weight, with adult BMI measured numerically. An adult BMI of 25.0-29.9 is ...

Encouragingly, these factors were protective even when children faced familial risks for obesity, including poverty, maternal depression, or residence in a single-parent home.

Less than 7% of children who identified as white met the medical definition for having obesity, compared with 9% of Asian Americans, 18% of Hispanics of any race, 21% of Native Americans or ...