Childhood Obesity Stories
Health and fitness are vital parts of everyone's life, but schools are cutting funding, slacking on grading, and some aren't even requiring phys ed classes at all.
Despite a 2007 initiative, kids are seeing more candy advertisements than before.
Gaps between childhood obesity rates in America and Canada may reveal the main drivers of unhealthy weight gain.
The CDC's student health report measured everything from physical activity to mental health.
For obese patients predisposed to colon cancer, aspirin could do the trick.
Telling people they're overweight is only making them eat more, says a new study.
Kids develop issues with body image early. Experts recommend getting help before they develop an eating disorder.
A new study finds obese teens are less likely to use contraception, increasing their risk of pregnancy.
Teens are selling an illicit commodity at their schools, but it's probably not what you think.
The average woman in today's America weighs just as much as men in the early 1960s, and today's man is 30 pounds heavier than what he would've been 45 years ago.
Obese women who become pregnant automatically put their child at risk for becoming obese.
Researchers find yet another link between high fructose corn syrup and child obesity.