Category: Contributing Factors of Obesity

Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is becoming an epidemic within the United States. According to the Mayo Clinic, childhood obesity is, "a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents. It…

Increasing prevalence of infant and childhood obesity around the world is a major public health concern [1]. If current trends continue, the number of overweight or obese infants and young…

What is the cause of our current obesity epidemic? Is it really the increase in consumption of a certain particular food, like so many seem to believe, or is it…

Obesity is a hot topic these days as obesity rates in the West continue to rise at an alarming rate and obesity is now commonly being seen in children. It…

When it comes to childhood obsity, kids don't choose to get fat. They are led to it by a lot of factors, not the least of which are the choice…

November 7, 2018 By Pat Hartman Sometimes discovery involves a long and often painfully exacting process of connecting seemingly disparate bits of information. By 2014, researchers had begun to suspect that shedding…

How can we help our kids lose weight? Is it important that they slim down? Yes! It is vital that we "cut our kids down to size!" Extra calories are…

Academicians love to classify all worldly phenomena, and those in the “soft” sciences are no exception. They quite understandably like to define and categorize things like parenting styles into theoretical frameworks. The Six-Cs…

We are indeed what we eat because everything that goes into our mouth has a form of depiction in our physical or outer appearance. In our society where everything we ingest has…

The advantages of vending machines are that they are cheap, quick and inexpensive. It sounds like they have everything a person or child could want. That is unless you consider…

Epigenetics is the study of long-term alterations of DNA that don't involve changes in the DNA sequence itself. Research has revealed that genes solely are not responsible for the onset…

Childhood obesity is a condition that afflicts the young in society, and can cause extreme health problems when cases are severe enough. Childhood obesity is the condition of a child…

By Ujwala Shenoy Karmarkar  |   Submitted On October 14, 2013 Why is childhood obesity on the rise? If we look at end-of-the-year photographs of our school-days, chances are that barely two or three…

By Chris Backman  |   Submitted On March 26, 2013 Childhood obesity is a condition that afflicts the young in society, and can cause extreme health problems when cases are severe enough. Childhood obesity…

By Mary Bodel  |   Submitted On February 05, 2015 Here is a scary thought. Our three year old granddaughter has figured out how to use her mother's smart phone. She's fairly adept at…

By J Russell Hart  |   Submitted On June 17, 2015 Fact: Kids 8 to 18 years old spend on average 4 hours per day watching T.V and an additional 2 hours per day on…

By Ruth A Yoerg  |   Submitted On August 31, 2016 How Popular are Sodas Today, in the United States, sugary sodas are taking the place of healthier drinks like milk. There are lots…

Liang Wang, Arsham Alamian, Jodi Southerland, James Anderson, Kesheng Wang, and Marc Stevens Originally published23 Mar 2018Circulation. 2013;127:AP289 Abstract Introduction— Few studies have investigated the relationship between delivery mode in the U.S. and the risk of…

Did you know the time spent on TV can be risky for your kid’s nutrition?  Many children spend a lot of time watching TV and research shows they are easily…