Age no barrier to anorexia, illness afflicts children
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Marg Oaten's daughter was a happy, healthy girl who loved table tennis and drama until at the age of 10 she developed anorexia. Twelve years on she is still fighting the illness, which almost killed her.
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Girls as young as five are sensitive about their bodies in a &quot;weight-hostile&quot; environment that equates popularity and attractiveness with thinness, an international conference of experts has heard.
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NEW YORK  - Among abused and neglected  children who are genetically prone to develop depression, the  risk of doing so may be reduced if they have someone to talk  to, share good news with and get advice from, new study  findings show.
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NEW YORK  - A history of anorexia nervosa   does not appear to be significantly associated with pregnancy   complications or negative birth outcomes, according to a study   by Swedish researchers.
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Children who are overweight and eat too much risk the binge eating disorder bulimia as adults, say psychiatrists.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 18 (Reuters Life!) - Los Angeles pediatrician Francine Kaufman is on the front lines of the childhood obesity epidemic, which has flooded her office with diabetes patients and put kids at risk of adult health problems.
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Children who are overweight and eat too much risk the binge eating disorder bulimia as adults, say psychiatrists. The assumption is based on a study of 154 twin sisters where one of the pair developed an eating disorder.
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When Krystina Brugh fell ill in January, her parents thought it was the stomach flu. They fed her crackers and her favorite sandwich, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, to give her strength. She didn't get better. Soon, the 11-year-old couldn't even keep down water, and her kidneys started to fail.
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The number of U.S. children with chronic health problems such as obesity has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending, researchers said on Tuesday.
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MONDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Children who are malnourished in their first few years of life are more likely to be aggressive and antisocial throughout childhood and into their late teens, says a University of Southern California study.
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Lack of food and education still afflict millions of children around the world, with nearly 10 million youngsters under age 5 dying each year from preventable diseases, the U.N. children's agency said Sunday.
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Nutritional deficiencies early in life may predispose children to behavioral problems into their teenage years, new research suggests.
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Children who dance are more at risk of eating disorders when they grow up, research has found.
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Earlier this month, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a troubling report underscoring what we all know: Not only are adults struggling with overeating and inactivity, but our kids are, too.
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New York  - Among teens in one Los Angles  public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in  their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said  they skipped meals or vomited to control their weight.
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In Bayside, Queens, a ward at St. Maryâs Hospital for Children does the careful work of breaking down childrenâs resistance to eating.
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Children born underweight but not disabled are still more likely to have physical and mental problems as teen-agers, researchers said on Monday.