CLEARING your plate has been a common rule in many households for generations of children wanting to escape the dining-room ...

Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said.

The British Nutrition Foundation has published guidance on how much food children should eat at mealtimes and the findings ...

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Doctors should use their clinical judgment and “intervene as part of the duty of care” if they feel obesity or weight related ...

GPs should use their ‘clinical judgement’ to decide when a child’s obesity has become a safeguarding concern, according to ...

Nearly half (48%) of parents said their children have second helpings at least once a week, while many rely on their own estimates when serving portion sizes for their offspring. The YouGov poll of 1, ...

Experiencing trauma during childhood is linked with a higher risk of developing obesity, a new study has claimed. However, ...

Obesity at childhood cancer diagnosis was independently associated with inferior survival, and this was likely driven by trends detected in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia or central ...

The amount of NHS hospital treatment for obese patients has quadrupled in a decade, new statistics show. Official figures ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental risk factors during ...

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health ...