Children should not be denied help in treating eating disorders on the basis of their body mass index (BMI), the NHS says.

Guidance for GPs and nurses says other factors should be taken into account, such as changes in behaviour ...

The study suggests there are opportunities to reduce childhood obesity, such as encouraging pregnant women to quit smoking and manage healthy weight gain, as well as closely monitoring children who ...

NHS England reports that specialist eating disorder services for children and young people are now available in every local ...

October 25, 2006 (Boston) — A community-based program that promotes exercise and healthful foods reduced body mass index (BMI) z-scores in children at high risk for obesity, researchers reported here ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

About The Study: This cross-sectional study including 426,000 children in Denmark found that body mass index (BMI) outcomes of COVID-19 pandemic–related control policies and restrictions were not ...

Children who are living with severe obesity are more likely to experience a clinically relevant change in BMI when GLP-1 agonist drugs form part of their treatment, new research being presented at ...

CHICAGO ― Higher weight and body mass index (BMI) in preadolescents are linked with poor brain health, new research suggests. Poor brain health has been linked with obesity in adults, but little has ...

Four in 10 Kent County children were identified as overweight or obese in a new local report on childhood obesity. That’s ...