A study shows moms who exercise little during pregnancy have bigger newborns. Sept. 21, 2009— -- Women having their first child can lower the chances of having an overweight baby with regular ...

One in 10 children worldwide now has obesity, a report from UNICEF found, and the number of overweight children has more than doubled in low- and middle-income countries since 2000. By Simar Bajaj For ...

Really early. More than half of obese children were overweight by the age of 2. One in five children are overweight or obese by the time they reach kindergarten. Risks for obesity, research shows, ...

Mothers who practiced responsive parenting -- including reacting promptly and appropriately to hunger and fullness cues -- were less likely to have overweight babies at their one-year checkup than ...

In an extremely rare case, a woman from Madhya Pradesh delivered a boy weighing 5.2 kg through caesarean section at a government-run hospital in Jabalpur, and, according to doctors, it was the "first ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

Four in 10 Kent County children were identified as overweight or obese in a new local report on childhood obesity. That’s ...