Obesity can lead to health problems, but children need compassion, not body shaming. The language that we use to talk to kids about their weight can impact their mental health. You are your child's ...

Duke’s Healthy Lifestyles Program works to educate overweight children and their families about a new way of coping in a world where everything comes super-sized. Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a pediatrication ...

It was gratifying to see The Chronicle recognize the scourge of childhood obesity on the front page (“Helping Kids Fight Fat,” October 16.) In New York City, where the number of overweight and obese ...

More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity ...

Rising obesity rates are widely viewed as the biggest health crisis facing the Western world. Prevention is better than cure, so doctors are focused on stopping children from getting overweight. But ...

While undernutrition remains a significant concern among children under 5 in most low- and middle-income countries, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing among school-aged children ...

The world's children are growing increasingly overweight and health experts are calling for reforms to help combat the issue. Some 391 million children and adolescents ages 5 to 19 — that's 1 in 5 ...

One in 10 children worldwide now has obesity, a report from UNICEF found, and the number of overweight children has more than doubled in low- and middle-income countries since 2000. By Simar Bajaj For ...

Studies show North Carolina children are heavier and less well-nourished than in years past -- conditions that could lead to lifelong health problems. There is a growing awareness that schools must ...

More than 6,000 dangerously overweight kids have been treated at specialist NHS clinics in the last five years, according to figures that lay bare the scale of Britain’s childhood obesity crisis.