Childhood Obesity? Forget About It.
The Domestic Policy Council wants to slice $193 billion from SNAP outlays over the next 10 years, and make the states pay for 25% of the remaining need.
Childhood Obesity and the World Wide Web
The capacity of various social media platforms to play a positive role in affecting the rate of childhood obesity is enormous.
Childhood Obesity Awareness in New Jersey and Beyond
In New Jersey, nearly one child in four is overweight or obese. The local YMCA’s Healthy U program offers parents anti-obesity guidelines.
Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Is In Session
September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Let’s look at the childhood obesity prevention suggestions found at HealthFinder.gov.
In the U.K.’s Childhood Obesity Fight, You Can’t Please Everyone
When the United Kingdom issued the long-anticipated blueprint titled “Childhood obesity: a plan for action,” many people felt let down.
More on Childhood Obesity and the Reproductive System
Of all the childhood obesity epidemic’s aspects, one of the most alarming is the ever-decreasing age of puberty. Worse, each condition exacerbates the other.
Childhood Obesity and the Reproductive System
Researchers accumulated information about how obesity in childhood and adolescence can set off a chain of consequences that will impact adult lives.
Psychological Dimensions of Childhood Obesity
The drawback of behavioral interventions is that, unless the subjects are in a very restrictive environment like boot camp, people can’t be made to do things.
The Childhood Obesity Solution?
What kinds of family-wide intervention strategies might help to lower the risk of obesity in high-risk children? Addressing maternal depression is one.
Bad Science and Childhood Obesity
Research shows industry-funded food studies influence public perception of what constitutes healthful eating and make unrealistic claims.