"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.

“Beneficial pediatric obesity treatment response yielded enduring health benefits, markedly lowering future morbidity and mortality risks in young adulthood,” the authors write. Several authors ...

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as they reach young ...

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

Achieving obesity remission reduced children’s and teens’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in adulthood, according to findings from a study published in JAMA ...

Gut microbiota plays a critical role in childhood obesity by influencing energy metabolism, inflammation, and appetite ...

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the results have effects later in life, and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as they reach young adulthood.

Children who respond well to pediatric obesity treatment have markedly lower morbidity and mortality risks in young adulthood, according to data published on January 21 in JAMA Pediatrics.

GLP-1 agonists for weight loss are now commonly used for adults, but might they also be an effective treatment for younger ...

The findings, published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum ... “We got excited about down-trending pediatric obesity rates in the early 2000s by the CDC, only for them to shoot up in ...