A study published in the February issue of Pediatrics shows family intervention aimed at improving parenting skills reduced behavior problems in kids and obesity and associated health problems. One-third of Americans, including children ages 2 to 17, are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics. Here are details about parent-child interventions.
Read more...With rising juvenile obesity rates, parents and health care experts have long debated what kinds of foods that schools should serve and whether schools should sell snack foods. A study published by the American Sociological Association says parents might need to look closer to home than schools for reasons why their kids are overweight. Here's a look at juvenile obesity, school nutrition and the ...
Read more..."A coming epidemic" is how pediatric cardiologists are describing the impending problems from high rates of juvenile obesity, reports The Missourian. Here are details for parents about overweight kids, heart disease and other concomitant health issues.
Read more...Today's kindergartners are heavier than kids brought up in the 1970s and 1980s and appear to be on the road to becoming overweight and obese in the years to come, a new study finds.
Read more...The key to combating juvenile obesity lies with parents, the American Heart Association says. The AHA released a scientific statement in its most recent issue of "Circulation" journal. Here are tips for parents to curb weight problems in kids, based on that report.
Read more...Fat kids? Bullies? Oklahoma legislation is blaming these societal problems on video games, and wants to slap a sin tax on anything rated teen and up.
Read more...Parents, learn 9 dos and don'ts for when it comes to talking to your overweight child and helping her get healthy.
Read more...When Dr. Elson Haas was a kid, he freely admits that he was overweight and burdened with a malady of allergies.
Read more...How people live -- stress, sleep, eat and exercise -- can affect their risk for heart disease, the nation's leading killer for women and men, according to the National Institutes of Health. Here's some of the latest thinking: Overtime may be a killer. Long hours on the job are a heart risk, along with smoking, bad cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Read more...I went to see a new doctor to get my thyroid checked because I have been gaining so much weight. He was really fat and I smelled cigarettes. I felt like I couldn't trust him. Am I being too picky? - Vickie L.
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