Childhood Obesity News

For years, scientists believed that a group of brain cells known as agouti-related peptide, or AgRP, neurons played a straightforward role in metabolism: They stimulated hunger and resisted weight loss.

New research from Yale...

The posts in this sequence explore some of the dark corners of obesity-related attitudes, because parents of children who seem to be headed in that direction might benefit from awareness about the future possibilities. The intention here is not to frighten anyone into locking the potentially obese child into a closet where a few hundred calories per day can be passed ...

The treatment landscape for obesity is changing rapidly, particularly among adolescents and young adults. New research suggests that GLP-1 medications have quickly become the most common medica...

At times, a potential difficulty does not look or sound like much of a threat, especially if no obstacle in that particular genre has been encountered or faced down before. But if and when a poisonous issue strikes, it can take over the entire universe for a while, and impede progress in sneaky and frankly ugly ways. In the sometimes precarious equilibrium of the fami...

It may seem harsh, but a very effective way to develop awareness is to get a taste of some of the things that unfeeling strangers will be saying about your beloved children a few years from now if you don’t get out ahead of this potential problem. It’s a shameless scare tactic, an effort to shock any mom or dad into planning ahead, and vowing to never let their childr...