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 ...

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 ...

The proportion of severely overweight children in the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent years, with the highest rates seen in adolescents and Black children, a new study found. Roughly 23% of all ...

For the first time in history, more children are obese than underweight, a shift UNICEF says is putting millions of kids at risk of life-threatening disease. The UN agency’s analysis, which covered ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...