A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

Childhood BMI trends — specifically moderate BMI and high BMI variability — were associated with high cortisol concentrations at 17 years of age.

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Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health ...

"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical’s Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory’s Dr. Amanda Staiano and Dr.

In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a clinical practice guideline recommending weight-loss medications, including glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, as a supplement ...

This year’s report shows risk factors on the rise, enduring racial and geographic gaps, and clues to the global picture, too.

Helping kids with obesity drop pounds can have a huge impact on their future health. When these children and teens lose ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., with advances in treatment unable to offset rising rates of other chronic health issues.

Zhou, Kenneth Q. (BMath, 2013; MMath, 2015; PhD (Actuarial Science), 2019, University of Waterloo) joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science on January 2nd, 2025, as an Associate ...

Achieving obesity remission reduced children’s and teens’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia ...

According to a new study, self-guided family therapy for obesity could work just as well as traditional approaches at a fraction of the cost.