A majority of the parents who attend adult weight management programmes and are concerned about their children's weight are open to receiving guidance or referrals to resources that can help support ...

Weight and physical activity levels are both factors in a child's ability to acquire and use knowledge, a new study finds. "The question this paper asks that has not been asked before is whether it is ...

Here's how therapists say you can teach your kids that “fat” isn’t a bad word and that weight fluctuation throughout life is entirely normal. Getty Images Growing up in the ’90s, Jessica Sprengle ...

Every child grows differently – It's totally normal for kids to be bigger or smaller than others at the same age. What's more important is that they grow steadily over time. Growth charts are just a ...

Recent research shows that the share of adolescents who were prescribed weight loss medications tripled nationally between 2020 and 2023. About 75% of weight is determined by genetics, said Dr. Nancy ...

Many parents in Serbia and across Europe fail to recognize when their children are overweight, a new study reveals. This ...

Every child grows at their own pace, and growth charts show typical patterns but not exact paths. Most children follow a similar growth curve from birth to puberty, with varying periods of quick ...

The app, called Kurbo, is aimed at children ages 8 to 17. More than 78,000 people have signed a petition online calling on WW, formerly Weight Watchers, to remove its new app aimed at children ages 8 ...

Parents attending an adult weight management program, who were worried about their child's weight, would accept support and signposting to services for their child if it was offered. The study, funded ...

The first time I remember seeing weight loss ads, I was 11 years old. As a child of the ’80s and ’90s, I had a subscription to Seventeen magazine, which featured ads about weight loss and "fat camps" ...

The number of teens and young adults taking GLP-1 drugs has increased by 594 percent—but scientists are still trying to understand the long-term effects. The success of GLP-1 agonist weight-loss drugs ...

A new warning will be added to the label of certain attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications over the risk of "significant" weight-loss in young children, the FDA said. Labels of ...