Childhood Obesity

America has a growing problem, and it involves its children—namely, our children are becoming obese at increasing rates. This explosion in obesity has been traced to what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) call a “caloric imbalance”—namely, kids are eating more calories than they’re spending. Genetic and environmental factors also weigh into the […]

There’s good news and bad news in the fight against childhood obesity. The good news: obesity rates have leveled off in recent years. The bad news: they aren’t going down, and remain high since the turn of the 21st century. In a new report called “Prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents in Canada and the United […]