Overweight & Obesity
Could a new computer program help your baby stay healthy?
A new computer programme will help health visitors to calculate the likelihood of babies becoming overweight in later life.
May 18, 2015
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Childhood Obesity
Overweight & Obesity
Researcher exploring why obesity strikes so hard among Mexican-American boys
Fifteen percent of non-Hispanic white children in the United States are obese, but among Mexican-American boys the figure is a much more troubling 23 percent. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Angelina ...
May 15, 2015
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Prenatal exercise lowers risks of C-sections, higher birth weights
Pregnant women who exercise can significantly lower the risk of undergoing Caesarean sections and giving birth to large babies, a University of Alberta study has found.
May 12, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Certain treatments for childhood cancer may increase obesity risk later in life
Childhood cancer survivors - especially those whose treatment included brain irradiation or chemotherapy with glucocorticoids - are 14 percent more likely to be obese than their healthy peers. The St. Jude Children's Research ...
May 11, 2015
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Pediatrics
Food industry achieved only baby steps to improve nutritional quality of foods advertised to kids
Children are exposed to a considerable amount of televised food advertising: more than six ads accounting for about 2:21 minutes per hour during typical programming. Concerns about the role of televised food advertising as ...
May 8, 2015
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Overweight & Obesity
Parents often misperceive their obese children as 'about the right weight'
Although rates of childhood obesity have risen over the last several decades, a vast majority of parents perceive their kids as "about the right weight," according to new research led by NYU Langone Medical Center.
May 6, 2015
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Pediatrics
School competitive food policies appears tied to neighborhood socioeconomics
Policy changes in California to make the food and beverages that compete with school meal programs more healthy for students appear to have improved childhood overweight/obesity prevalence trends, although improvement was ...
May 4, 2015
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Overweight & Obesity
Lack of safety at school and poverty linked to childhood obesity
A lack of safety at school is one of the correlates of childhood obesity, say researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated Research Centre at CHU Sainte Justine children's hospital. "Childhood obesity is caused ...
Apr 28, 2015
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Overweight & Obesity
Childhood obesity – one epidemic or two?
New research has indicated that obesity in children has quite different causes at different ages. The research, led by the University of Exeter Medical School and part of the internationally respected EarlyBird Study, could ...
Apr 28, 2015
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Overweight & Obesity
New study questions role of breast milk in obesity prevention
A new study supports human milk as the optimal first food for babies, but the study raises questions about whether breast milk protects children from becoming obese.
Apr 7, 2015
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