… of effective lifestyle and medication interventions for severe pediatric obesity and severe …
Thus, to improve child health and childhood obesity in the present era, physicians and pediatric …

… Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century
with far-reaching and enduring adverse consequences for health outcomes. Over 42 million …

… prevalence of childhood obesity and its geographic distribution throughout the United
States, the term “pandemic” is appropriate for describing the current status of childhood obesity. …

… of pooled overweight/obesity among children, adolescents and adults was 12.59%, 11.39%
and 17.13% respectively. The combined child prevalence of overweight/obesity in this study …

… , obesity rates doubled in seventy countries and increased in most others, and childhood
obesity … individuals) were obese, 6 of whom nearly 10 percent were severely obese (having a …

… Our most obese female patient, weighing 840 lb (381 kg) at … using the phrase childhood
obesity divorce quickly indicates its … comfortable explanation for childhood obesity, although it …

… out the dangers of self-diagnosis and self-medication. In the … by physioians* These self-medication
drugs were dispensed by … the sale of drugs for self-medication an unethical procedure …

… Medication Induced Weight Gain in the Child with Overweight or Obesity Shown are the top
takeaways from the medication induced weight gain in the child with overweight or obesity. …

… in children aged 5 to 14 is difficult since there is no standard definition of childhood obesity
applied worldwide. The use of the same body-mass index (BMI) cutoff centiles passing …

… Parents and caregivers with proper education on the causes and consequences of childhood
obesity can help prevent childhood obesity by providing healthy meals and snacks, daily …