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Update: Doc Takes Heat for Suggesting Kids Be Removed From Obsese Parents

by Tom Henderson, Posted Jul 18th 2011 3:00PM

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Boston pediatrician David Ludwig suggested children should be taken away from their obese parents.
Uh, why is everyone looking at him like that? MSNBC reports Ludwig's comments, made in the Journal of the ...Doctor claims his comments were blown out of proportion.
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Video Gamers: The Overeating Defenders of the Universe

by Tom Henderson, Posted May 5th 2011 3:30PM

Killing aliens makes a kid hungry. Credit: Corbis
Space aliens have invaded Earth, demanding we have their dress shirts cleaned and pressed by Tuesday or face the consequences.
Now, the only thing that stands between humanity and an ...Research finds gamers pack away the pounds while blowing away the aliens.
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Opinion: Happy Meal Toy Ban Is Just Plain Sad

by Brett Singer, Posted May 10th 2010 3:00PM

Have you ever wondered why so many kids these days are obese? Is it because they eat food such as the McDonald's Cheeseburger Happy Meal, which contains more than 1,000 milligrams of sodium? Or is the free Beanie Baby that comes in the box to ...
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Two-Year-Old Tot Tips Scales at 90 Pounds

by Brett Singer, Posted Mar 2nd 2010 3:37PM

Pang Ya weighs as much as an adult woman. Credit: Quirky China News / Rex USA
A toddler in China weighs almost 100 pounds. You have to see the photo to believe it. Two-year-old Pang Ya, who lives in China's Shanxi province, was born ...
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Rate of Chronic Diseases Doubling in Children

by Amy Hatch, Posted Feb 16th 2010 4:00PM

Chronic health conditions among U.S. children took a significant leap, more than doubling from 12.8 percent in 1994 to 26.6 percent in 2006. Researchers from MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston followed three separate groups of children ...
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Genetic Studies Reveal New Causes of Severe Obesity In Childhood

by Melissa Rayworth, Posted Dec 7th 2009 4:30PM

DNA may be the answer to some cases of childhood obesity. Credit: ynse, Flickr
In battling the problem of childhood obesity, researchers and parents have looked to increased exercise and changes in diet for solutions. But researchers in the UK ...
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Stressful Home Life Making Kids Fat?

by Amy Hatch, Posted Jan 24th 2009 11:00AM

A Swedish study of more than 7,000 families found that kids with a highly stressful family life are twice as likely to be obese when compared with children living in low-stress environments. The study followed kids from birth to age six, and ...
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Number of medicated kids on the rise

by Amy Hatch, Posted Nov 5th 2008 10:00AM

A spike in the number of children taking medication for chronic health problems such as diabetes and asthma has doctors wondering if the number of kids with these diseases is actually on the rise, or if treatment of the conditions has changed in the ...
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Weight loss surgery for kids

by Sandy Maple, Posted Sep 29th 2008 2:00PM

Considering all we've heard about the childhood obesity epidemic, it really should come as no surprise that parents are turning to surgical procedures to help their kids lose weight. According to a 2007 study, nearly 800 U.S. kids had weight-loss ...
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Study: Rural kids more likely to be obese

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 20th 2007 11:03AM

Another study about overweight kids. This one says that children living in rural areas are 25 percent more likely than city kids to be overweight or obese. Researchers at University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford reached this conclusion ...
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