Infants being treated for obesity
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Doctors say they are now seeing children as young as six months old in their obesity clinics.
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Epidemic of overweightness means monitoring is needed from infancy onwards, expert warns.
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NEW YORK  - Giving parents the skills to cope effectively with their young children's weight problems can make it easier for these kids to slim down, a study from Australia shows.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 1  (HealthDay News) -- Children who get less than nine hours of sleep a night are more likely to be overweight or obese, new research shows.
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Obesity has been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases, the BBC learns, as some doctors view it as neglect.
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The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: more than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday.
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An updated report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) confirms what many parents and pediatricians already know: Childhood obesity is only getting worse.
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MANY parents do not realise their children are overweight even when they actually become obese, researchers said today. Rates of obesity in adults and children have soared in recent years, with more than half of Britons now overweight.
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More than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are plagued with obesity,. The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: more than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are overweight.
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MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- The self-esteem of children who become overweight or obese is likely to fall, claims a new study that confirms what many heavy children and their parents already know.
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Parents of overweight and obese kids often don't realize that their children are carrying excess pounds, new research shows.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- While there's more recognition of the obesity epidemic plaguing American children and many new programs to fight it, the effectiveness of these efforts is not clear, a new federal report warns.
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NEW YORK -- A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhood.
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NEW YORK  - Investigators have found that children, whose mothers had a larger body mass index (BMI) prior to pregnancy or a large mid-upper arm circumference in late pregnancy, also had higher levels of body fat at the age of 9 years than other children of the same age.
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Doctors and health advocates have warned for years that American children are getting fatter. Now even some kids&#039; teddy bears are packing on the pounds.
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A report published by the American Heart Association says one tenth of all American children aged 2-5 were obese in 2002. Ten years ago the figure stood at one in fourteen.
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NEW YORK  - Many parents of children classified as overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child is "about the right weight," new research suggests.