Study: Height and a Child&#39;s Popularity
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HEALTHY LIVING - A new survey has some surprising results. It finds that a child&#39;s height has no bearing on his or her popularity.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDayNews) -- Tall girls who receive estrogen therapy during adolescence to reduce their adult height are more likely to have fertility problems later in life.
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The way a girl grows during her early years may influence her risk of breast cancer, a research suggests. A Danish study of more than 117,000 women found those born chubby, but who went on to become tall and lean teenagers had the highest risk.
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Scientists have discovered the first gene that influences a person's height.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Early growth patterns in a girl's life, going back as far as her birth weight, influence her later risk of developing breast cancer.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow  fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by  the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000  children in Hong Kong has shown.
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Outgoing people tend to be overweight, while anxious types are more likely to be thin, according to Japanese researchers who examined the links between personality and body mass.
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NEW YORK  - The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.
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Children's tendency to become  overweight might have something to do with how their mothers  urge them to eat, a new study hints.
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Research from Australia in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET suggests that tall girls given oestrogen therapy in adolescence to reduce adult height are more likely to experience later fertility problems than the general population.
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Tall girls given oestrogen therapy in adolescence to reduce their adult height could experience impaired fertility in later life, an Australian study has found.
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Research from Australia in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1513) suggests that tall girls given oestrogen therapy in adolescence to reduce adult height are more likely to experience later fertility problems than the general population.
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Mothers who breast-feed are less likely to restrict their child&#39;s food intake as the youngster grows up, new research finds. One possible explanation: Breast-feeding mothers
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American children and adults have become a little bit taller over the past 40 years, but a lot heavier, according to government statistics.
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Pudgy toddlers face a good chance of becoming overweight 12-year-olds, according to government research that shoots down the notion that kids just naturally outgrow early chubbiness.
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NEW YORK  - Children's tendency to become overweight might have something to do with how their mothers urge them to eat, a new study hints.
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Science & environment: US study finds that a child's risk of becoming overweight is mostly down to nature, not nurture