Obesity is a huge problem for kids, not only here in Canada and the States but also overseas. In the UK, the government got involved by sending out controversial "fat letters" to parents of primary schoolchildren whose body mass index (BMI) results showed they were overweight or obese.
But that approach totally backfired. Only one-fifth of parents responded favourably to the letter.
So childhood obesity isn't a problem solely here in Canada and the States. A five-year-old girl in Wales was taken from her parents when it was discovered that she weighed more than three times the average for her age.
It's a case of the body coming into maturity before the mind. Research has indicated that girls in the U.S. are reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages. Why?
Between 2004 and 2011, more than 1,200 girls aged between six and eight were studied to see when their breasts began to develop (not necessarily when menstruation started).
Everyone's favourite blue monster's binging days are officially numbered. Sesame Street's Cookie Monster is finally, painfully, about to learn how to curb his beloved chocolate chip cookie habit.
As part of the new season, which begins today, Cookie's motto will be everything in moderation. But rather than have him abstain completely (and suffer needlessly) as he did back in 2005, Cookie will be taught the very trying lesson of "Me want it, but me wait."
Fruit. It may be one of your five a day, the key to vitality. But one health expert claims when juiced, fruit is nothing more than a poison.
According to an article in the Telegraph, no matter how you dice it, fruit juice is pure sugar, and therefore can only be bad for us. A new book, "Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth about Sugar" by Robert Lustig offers a damning report on sugar, which the author blames for our current obesity crisis.
No denying that childhood obesity is an epidemic. But as far as parents in Massachusetts are concerned, sending home a so-called 'fat letter' strikes the wrong cord.
We know that childhood obesity is a problem here in Canada, but just how much of a problem? A big fat one, it turns out. According to Stats Canada's latest figures: one in three.
The First Lady is first and foremost a mom. And the good old-fashioned kind at that.
In a recent interview with Parenting Magazine, the U.S. President's wife Michelle Obama dished on all things parenting. For someone who lives in the White House, her views were reassuringly traditional, heavily rooted in old-fashioned values like community.
What does math have to do with obesity? Quite a lot, it seems. New research from the University of Missouri has found an unlikely link between math smarts and children's weight.
According to lead researcher and associate professor in the MU Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Sara Gable, there are "complex relationships among children's weight, social and emotional wellbeing, academics and time."
C-sections are getting a bad rep lately. First there was the reported link between Caesarean deliveries subsequent childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis. Now, research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood makes the hefty claim that C-sections may double the risk of childhood obesity.
Big news, considering that around one in three babies are born this way in the US, with similar figures here in Canada.