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Welcome to the Childhood Obesity Foundation. We are a Canadian registered charity and a leading Canadian authority on issues related to childhood obesity. (more...)

Overweight children: childhood obesity, obesity rates. Family Guide: causes of childhood obesity, effects of childhood obesity. (more...)

Overweight and obesity in children are significant public health problems in the United States. The number of adolescents who are overweight has tripled since 1980 and the ... (more...)

Overweight and Obesity, Trends, Contributing Factors, Health Consequences, Economic Consequences, State-Based Programs, Recommendations (more...)

Childhood obesity b a comprehensive look at screening, complications, treatment and prevention of childhood obesity. (more...)

Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child's health or wellbeing. As methods to determine body fat directly are difficult, the diagnosis of ... (more...)

Between 5-25 percent of children and teenagers in the United States are obese. ... Between 5-25 percent of children and teenagers in the United States are obese (Dietz, 1983). (more...)

Childhood Obesity: There is an epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States and throughout the world. Experts estimate one in five children ... (more...)

Childhood Obesity on the Rise, an article in the June 2002 edition of The NIH Word on Health - Consumer Information Based on Research from the National Institutes of Health (more...)

The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 more than doubled in the past 20 years, going from 6.5% in 1980 to 17.0% in 2006. (more...)