In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

The RESPOND trial adapted to COVID-19 disruptions by shifting to a cluster-parallel randomized design, enabling analysis ...

Establishing habits in children can help to prevent childhood obesity, a rising problem in the US. Childhood obesity is on the rise in the US, with the CDC estimating approximately 1 in 5 children ...

The researchers say this study may be one of the first ever to prevent early childhood obesity, particularly in a large group of diverse participants. Perrin indicated that research shows most ...

A health literacy-informed digital intervention improved child weight-for-length trajectory across the first 24 months of life and reduced childhood obesity at 24 months. The intervention was ...

Text messages and other online feedback can help prevent obesity in very young children ... pediatric office visits become less frequent past a child's first year of life, the researchers reasoned.

Image Provided by Sophia Pena More than half of Americans who are living with obesity or overweight can’t stop thinking about ... Throughout her life, the constant thoughts about food ebbed ...

The report also found that obesity’s incremental annual cost on Canada’s health-care system was nearly $5.4 billion, which is ...

Dr. Perrin co-led a study that shows adding text messaging and digital feedback alongside traditional health counseling can help to prevent obesity in very young children. This, in turn, prevents life ...

Infants whose families received ongoing text message-based health behavior counseling in addition to clinic-based counseling ...

Expanding access to new, highly effective weight-loss medications could prevent more than 40,000 deaths a year in ... and ...