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If you have been obese since your childhood, check with your mom if she had gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with you. A new study done by a group of Portland researchers suggests that gestational diabetes and childhood obesity is linked...
Most of the parents in America are worried about their kids,reason being the loads of weight that they are piling up. Here is what you as parents need to do in order to get your kids back in shape.
First and foremost you have to be patient with your...
Conventional myth about the intake of juice has been exploded by the researchers in Toronto at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting. According to their new study, the intake of 100% is not linked with obesity in children.
Findings are...
Recent Australian study has suggested that a dad’s parenting pattern influences a kid’s weight enormously. Findings are based on the study of 5,000 children, four to five years of age, along with their parents.
Scholars discovered that fathers who...
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A study by Harvard Medical School researchers says that breast-feeding does not make a difference when it comes to obesity levels later in life.
Health agencies including the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy...
The Institute of Medicine has put forward a proposal, which would encourage healthy eating habits among the school goers by restricting calories, fat and sugar while encouraging more nutritious eating.
The parameters have been developed by keeping in...
Recent findings have postulated that nearly 75 million children are overweight and 5.1 million are suffering from obesity in the European Union.
Tim Lobstein of the London-based International Association for the Study of Obesity asserted that there...
Life has become really hectic for all. People are working day in and day out; they don’t have enough time for themselves leave alone for exercises. Tentacles of obesity has not only enveloped the adults but even the kids are not far beyond it’s clutches....
Scholars in South Korea are of the view that obesity in children is directly proportional to some kind of ear infection. But scientists in the US are quite apprehensive about the study.
If any such type of link existed, doctors would have been in a...
You don’t really have to take your children to a gym or make them exercise for an hour to keep them slim. All they have to do is be active by engaging themselves in 15-20 minutes of any of the physical activities they enjoy. It could be anything from...
The other day I wrote about Connor McCreaddie, an eight-year-old boy, who weight around 196 pounds and was proposed to remove away from his family because of his obesity. Many of you like me were quite sad at the condition of the poor boy.
Also, his...
It is summer time – that long break from school that most adults dread and most children love. It is also that time of the year, researchers suggest, when children gain more weight than they during any other period.
A recent study that is...
What, an eight-year-old boy to be taken away from his parents just for being overweight?
Social services have intruded on the pretext of fighting against childhood obesity.
Connor McCreaddie, the boy that I am talking about, has weight around 196...
With the modern and reliable obstetric care, more and more women in the United States are going in for high-risk pregnancies.
Although, there is a high degree of threat towards life in conceiving after forty, like, diabetes, obesity and high blood...
If you think that over exposure to television only means wastage of time and an adverse effect on your kid’s eyesight, ten you have all the need to update your facts.
According to a recent research, effects of watching excessive TV are far beyond just...
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