Recent News & Comments About adolescent obesity
Weight Loss Strategies for Adolescents: A 14-Year-Old Struggling to Lose Weight [Clinical Crossroads]
With prevalence approaching 20% in the United States, adolescent obesity has become a common problem for patients, parents, and clinicians. Obese adolescents may experience physical and psychosocial complications, as illustrated by the case of Ms K, a 14-year-old girl with a body mass index of 40. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of pediatric obesity treatment is modest in younger children and ...
Childhood Obesity May Cause Future Heart Disease Epidemic
"A coming epidemic" is how pediatric cardiologists are describing the impending problems from high rates of juvenile obesity, reports The Missourian. Here are details for parents about overweight kids, heart disease and other concomitant health issues.
Paper calls for more to be done to help young people with depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems in young people worldwide, but it often goes unrecognised and untreated. Left untreated, adolescent depression increases the risk of suicide, substance abuse, and obesity, leads to serious social and educational problems, and can result in lifelong health problems. Although effective treatments are available, the lack of interventions ...
CRC Health Group's Wellspring Program Shares New Studies: Inspiration & Parental Perspiration Often Help Overweight ...
CHICAGO, IL-- - In two recently published studies related to childhood obesity and weight loss, researchers from Wellspring, the leading provider of treatment programs for overweight young people and a ...
Obesity Rates Level Off, Remain High
The good news is that obesity rates overall among children and adults appear to be leveling off. But the bad news is that these rates have consistently remained high since 2003, a black eye for those who have worked for years to curb the obesity crisis. ”Many...
Oklahama state rep wants violent-game tax
HB 2696 seeks to charge 1 percent tax on all games sold in state rated Teen, Mature, and Adults-Only; money collected would go toward Sooner State's obesity and bullying prevention funds.
South Carolina task force tackles childhood obesity
Increasingly alarmed by the rate of childhood obesity in the state, physicians in South Carolina are leading a new effort to focus on the problem and possible solutions.
7 Reasons We're Finally Starting to See Obesity Rates Level Off
Stats climbed when deregulatory policies were introduced to boost farm production, but they've finally stalled. Have we gained all that we can?
Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents Improves Obesity-Related Diseases Within First Two Years
Doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital who perform weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery) on adolescents took a look at their patient population in a retrospective study published in the January 2012 print edition of Pediatric Blood & Cancer. They found that their patients had experienced a significant loss of excess body weight and showed improvement in many obesity-related diseases within ...
Prevalence of obesity in US still high, with little change in recent years
( JAMA and Archives Journals ) There has not been significant change in the prevalence of obesity in the US, with data from 2009-2010 indicating that about one in three adults and one in six children and teens are obese; however, there have been increases in certain demographics, according to two studies being published by JAMA.
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