Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

Gandhinagar: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a call for an obesity-free India, the state govt's education department ...

Obesity and overweight refer to excessive fat accumulation. Addressing obesity and overweight conditions is crucial for ...

Obesity is considered to be a global public health concern, but experts still disagree about the precise origins and causes of rising obesity rates ... The data came from the 1958 National Child ...

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health found that children who use screens for ... periods increases the risk ...

Eating a heavy dinner, especially late at night, may hinder your weight loss efforts. A 2020 study found that eating dinner ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that having an overweight or obesity trajectory during childhood is associated with ...

While smoking is still the main cause of COPD, this research shows that childhood obesity could be another important factor. The study is especially strong because it looked at a very large number ...

Reflecting on the potential causes of the association ... meaning that overweight and obesity in childhood are likely to be independent indicators of risk for COPD in adulthood." ...