27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

Obesity in childhood is perhaps the most major clinical and public health problem in the United States and most developed countries and is rapidly becoming so in developing countries. The National ...

Poor nutrition choices of calorie-dense foods have also been linked to childhood obesity. Many studies have found a relationship between certain dietary behaviors—such as consuming sugary ...

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of ...

A previous study, published in PLOS Medicine by the same research group ... the JAMA Pediatrics paper shows. No matter the outcome of obesity treatment in childhood, the risk of anxiety and ...

Scientists are working to understand why some people with obesity develop health complications while others do not. Now, a comprehensive study by researchers from Zurich and Leipzig has laid an ...

A child dribbles a basketball at a recreation center in D.C. on June 21. (Allison Robbert/The Washington Post) The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key ...

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Over the past decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, now affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide. Childhood obesity ... Cluster of Obesity Research Projects.

A main motivation is the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has long argued that a healthy diet can have a second ...

There is a silent 'pandemic' that is taking over the world, including India, and costing lives—obesity. World Obesity Atlas ...