Having a high body mass index (BMI) as a young child may not reflect a lifelong risk of obesity, researchers suggest. A study by experts in Australia found the genetic factors that influence the size ...

In a new research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics, a team of Yale experts examined the clinical utility of taking additional measurements in children with high body mass index, or BMI, to diagnose ...

A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition, offers new insights into a decades-old puzzle in childhood obesity. The study found that while body mass index (BMI) starts to rise in early ...

In new research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) and published in The Journal of Nutrition, a 42-year old theory as to why children’s body ...

KENT COUNTY, MI – Four in 10 Kent County children were identified as overweight or obese in a new local report on childhood obesity. That’s higher than the statewide average of 32.6% of Michigan ...

BMI can misrepresent adiposity, prompting recommendations for additional anthropometric measures or direct body fat assessment to confirm obesity diagnoses. The study found that 99.5% of youth with ...

Researchers have found in a new study that higher intake of ultra-processed foods during childhood is associated with ...

By age 7, more than 26 per cent of the children were classified 'thin' and 5.2 per cent classified 'overweight/obese', ...