NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research indicates that problems associated with being overweight occur at a much younger age than previously thought. In a study reported in the journal Pediatrics, ...

There are surely people out there who meet the “fat but fit” label. But it’s unclear whether people who are overweight or who have obesity can avoid all weight-related health problems by focusing ...

CHICAGO — Overweight is associated with behavior problems among girls entering kindergarten, but not boys, according to an article in the August issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent ...

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Kids who carry excess weight may be doing permanent damage to their feet. When there is an increased amount of weight and stress being placed on the foot, it can cause significant changes in the foot ...

Children who are overweight face more than future health problems. They appear to have broken bones and joint problems more often during childhood than kids of normal weight, research suggests. "A lot ...

Daily life is not easy for Salvatore. At 17, he weighs 170kg (26st 10lb) and struggles to walk. He can't tie his own shoelaces and his Vespa scooter strains to bear his weight - in one week, its ...

The number of overweight children is on the rise worldwide and will climb dramatically by 2010, according to a new study by Youfa Wang, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...