ORLANDO, Florida — In children, the correlation between body mass index (BMI) and activity level is weak, a new study shows. "We were surprised," Charlotte Huppertz, PhD, a psychologist at the VU ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having a high body mass index (BMI) as a young child may not reflect a lifelong risk of obesity, researchers suggest. Sebastian ...

New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) highlights the need to support women and their families with overweight or obesity to optimise their health and ...

Researchers from the Arnold Healthy Kids Initiative and Research Center for Child Well-Being have continued publishing results from their three-year study examining the health effects of providing ...

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 ...

A child inherits around 35 percent to 40 percent of their body mass index from their parents, according to a study published in Economics and Human Biology. The research team, headed by the United ...

BMI was lower in kids whose mothers received a responsive parenting intervention in the INSIGHT randomized clinical trial. Across ages 3 to 9 years, children in a responsive parenting group had a ...

India has been the world's diabetes capital for quite some time now. And according to experts, it stems from obesity. To make ...

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 ...

A University of Queensland study has modeled how genes can influence a child's body mass index (BMI) over time and how they may contribute to the risk of developing diseases, such as heart disease or ...

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) highlights the need to support women and their families with overweight or obesity to optimise their health and ...