For primary care physicians, obesity is one of the most challenging problems confronted in office practice. The disorder is increasing in prevalence despite the efforts of both patients and physicians. Treatment requires a multimodality…

Too many American children are overweight, and they’re only getting fatter, with deleterious consequences for their health. But concerned pediatricians need help in designing effective interventions. This examination of…

An epidemic of childhood obesity and overweight, to which social, economic, and human behaviors have contributed, threatens long-term medical, psychosocial, and financial consequences beyond US society’s current capacity to respond. How the epidemic is controlled…

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions both in New York and across the nation. While most epidemics can be defeated with a pill or a vaccine, obesity requires people to change the way they eat and…

Provide Healthy Eating Experiences
  * Provide healthy meals and snacks that meet the requirements of USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). For children 2 years…

Causes of Obesity Epidemic

Overweight and obesity are caused by a complex array of genetic, metabolic, and behavioral interactions across a number of relevant social, environmental and policy contexts that…

A new study suggests that nearly one-third of children undergoing surgery are overweight or obese, placing them at increased risk of experiencing complications associated with the surgery.

“We hope our study…

Obesity is associated with a 25 percent increase in the risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders and a 25 percent decrease in likeliness for substance abuse,…

Obesity is under-diagnosed in people with diabetes overall and especially in African-Americans, even though both conditions are more prevalent in African-Americans than whites, a new study finds.

The data were…

Weight loss is tremendously difficult for obese individuals to accomplish. If achieved, long-term maintenance poses equivalent or even more daunting difficulties. There are innumerable methods espoused to help or even directly cause weight loss.…

Obesity continues to be very costly, not only in morbidity and mortality, but also in health care dollars. Colditz (1999) estimated that 300,000 adults die each year from obesity-related causes. He…

A number of systems have been used to define and classify obesity. The body mass index (BMI), which is also known as the Quetelet index, is currently in use.The BMI is calculated as weight in…

Excessive weight has become one of the major health problems in the United States as well as in other affluent societies. Because of its medical importance and its multifaceted effects on pregnancy, it is discussed…

EVALUATION
All children with a BMI greater than the 85th percentile and severely obese children younger than 2 years and those of any age rapidly gaining excessive weight need evaluation. The…

Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) >30kg/m², is a significant health problem. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and the World Health Organization estimates that there are more than 1 billion…

Obesity among children and adolescents is an increasing problem in the United States and the rest of the world, even in locations previously prone to malnutrition. Obesity refers to excess body fat,…