Children and adolescents should be proactively evaluated and treated for obesity, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics around childhood obesity. The guidelines note that ...

Nearly 20% of all children in the US have what’s considered to be a high body mass index, the measure that practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. New draft guidelines released ...

Obesity often persists from childhood into adulthood, yet guidelines are segmented by age, lacking adolescent-specific recommendations. Discrepancies exist in BMI assessment, exercise, and dietary ...