One in 10 children worldwide now has obesity, a report from UNICEF found, and the number of overweight children has more than doubled in low- and middle-income countries since 2000. By Simar Bajaj For ...

New health data is highlighting opportunities to tackle childhood obesity, as a study found 15 per cent of babies born in ...

Really early. More than half of obese children were overweight by the age of 2. One in five children are overweight or obese by the time they reach kindergarten. Risks for obesity, research shows, ...

Although many people love chubby newborn babies, the rise in “supersized” babies has doctors concerned. Recently, babies born weighing more than 13 pounds at birth have made headlines. Earlier this ...

In an extremely rare case, a woman from Madhya Pradesh delivered a boy weighing 5.2 kg through caesarean section at a government-run hospital in Jabalpur, and, according to doctors, it was the "first ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

Mothers who practiced responsive parenting -- including reacting promptly and appropriately to hunger and fullness cues -- were less likely to have overweight babies at their one-year checkup than ...