child obesity

Active Video Games Prevents Child Obesity

harminka — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:36:04 -0500

Scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found that playing active video games can be as effective for children as moderate exercise. The findings appear this week in the journal Pediatrics from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Childhood Diabetes Is On The Rise

Margaret Wilde — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:36:23 -0500

A report published on the Lancet medical journal's Online First website draws attention to a substantial rise in incidence of type 1 diabetes in children. Type 1 diabetes is also known as insulin-dependant diabetes. Parents of these children have the task of giving their children or babies insulin injections several times a day.

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Decreased Due To Daily Execise In School

harminka — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:50:43 -0500

School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise programme in reducing their levels of several known risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Survey Warns Over Too Salty, Sugary Cereals

Margaret Wilde — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:27:41 -0500

Only one of the 100 cereals checked, Nestlé's Shredded Wheat, was low in both salt and sugar. Breakfast cereals are marketed as healthy, but almost all those targeted at children are not healthy.

Health Department Child Obesity Campaign Provokes Parental Backlash

Margaret Wilde — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:38:07 -0500

The UK Department of Health has been wasting taxpayers' money on ridiculous advertisements that imply home-cooked fairy cakes may lead to childhood obesity and early death.

Family-based programs including behavior therapy can work

harminka — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:22:32 -0600

Family-based lifestyle interventions that not only modify diet and physical activity but also include behaviour therapy programs can help obese children lose weight and maintain that loss for at least six months. This Cochrane Review also found that in adolescents the effect lasts for at least 12 months.

Has benefits even if it doesn't help lose weight

harminka — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:20:04 -0600

School-based health and exercise programs have positive outcomes despite having little effect on children's weight or the amount of exercise they do outside of school, say Cochrane Researchers who carried out a systematic review of studies on physical activity programs in schools.

Doctors not properly diagnosing overweight and obesity in children

harminka — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:41:43 -0600

Despite recent widespread media attention given to studies that have indicated one-third of American children have a weight problem, a new study shows just one-third of children who are overweight or obese actually receive that diagnosis by a pediatrician.

Weight issues in children starting school

harminka — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:46:57 -0600

Immigrant children have a greater risk of suffering from overweight and obesity. This is the result of a study from Augsburg with 2306 children examined on starting school. Elisabeth Weber and her coauthors present the results in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

Exercise helps overweight children reduce anger expression

harminka — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:04:22 -0600

Regular exercise seems to reduce anger expression in overweight but otherwise healthy children, researchers said.

Neighborhood greenness has long term positive impact on kids' health

harminka — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:25:21 -0500

In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children's weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the University of Washington report that higher neighborhood greenness is associated with slower increases in children's body mass over a two year period, regardless of residential density.

4 in 10 parents wrong on whether their child is under or overweight

harminka — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:46:25 -0500

More than four in 10 parents with underweight and overweight children mistakenly believe their children are in the average weight range, according to University of Melbourne research.