Researchers analyzed national health data from 2008 to 2023, uncovering a surge in the most severe obesity categories for ...

How we discuss body shapes greatly influences children’s self – perception. Society blends personal history and medical ...

BMI was lower in kids whose mothers received a responsive parenting intervention in the INSIGHT randomized clinical trial. Across ages 3 to 9 years, children in a responsive parenting group had a ...

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is delaying having children until brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink are readily available. Wang believes that children born with Neuralink technology will ...

Children born to mothers with higher BMI in early pregnancy have greater weight and BMI from birth through age 10, regardless of prenatal lifestyle interventions.

The Australian study found the greater a woman’s BMI in pregnancy, the greater her child’s weight from birth to the age of ten. This was the case regardless of whether the woman took part in a ...

“BMI works fine at a population level,” to assess risk, says Lee Stoner, a cardiometabolic physiologist, science consultant, and associate professor at the University of North Carolina.

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it.

SOLNA, Sweden — Whether it’s being too skinny or being overweight as a child, a new study finds an unhealthy body mass index (BMI) could lead to severe lung problems later on. A team from the ...

Maternal eating disorders and high BMI were strongly associated with offspring who had sleep disorders, social functioning and tic disorders, and intellectual disabilities.

Explore how overweight and obesity are classified using BMI and other methods and understand the limitations of relying on BMI for health assessments.

There’s a growing body of evidence that child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable. We urgently need to scale up prevention efforts.