A new study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center supported by the "la Caixa Foundation" has shed light on the influence that Endocrine-Disrupting ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children should not be denied help in treating eating disorders on the basis of their body mass index (BMI), the NHS says. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most children aged 9 and 15 years with BMI in overweight range had a normal fat level. High and excess fat ...

An abnormal BMI in children -- be it high or low -- can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset, ...

A child inherits around 35 percent to 40 percent of their body mass index from their parents, according to a study published in Economics and Human Biology. The research team, headed by the United ...

Being overweight or too skinny in childhood may adversely affect people's lung function as adults, new research shows. Previous studies have had mixed results when looking at a correlation between ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open investigates whether city-level sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation affects child and adolescent body mass index (BMI) values in California between ...