Over the past several decades, the incidence of early-onset cancers, often defined as
cancers diagnosed in adults< 50 years of age, in the breast, colorectum, endometrium …

The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents (aged 2–18 years) has
increased rapidly, with more than 100 million affected in 2015. Moreover, the epidemic of …

Background The dynamics of body-mass index (BMI) in children from birth to adolescence
are unclear, and whether susceptibility for the development of sustained obesity occurs at a …

Importance Based on year 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts,
approximately 17% of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years in the United States …

Background School food environment policies may be a critical tool to promote healthy diets
in children, yet their effectiveness remains unclear. Objective To systematically review and …

A systematic review and meta‐analysis was performed to investigate the ability of simple
measures of childhood obesity such as body mass index (BMI) to predict future obesity in …

Obese children are at higher risk of being obese as adults, and adult obesity is associated
with an increased risk of morbidity. This systematic review and meta‐analysis investigates …

Obesity, defined as abnormal accumulation of fat such that health is impaired, 1 is most
commonly assessed using the body mass index (BMI). But some people have questioned …

Adipose tissue in addition to its ability to keep lipids is now recognized as a real organ with
both metabolic and endocrine functions. Recent studies demonstrated that in obese animals …

OBJECTIVES: Studies addressing breastfeeding and obesity rarely document the method of
breast milk feeding, type of supplementation, or feeding in hospital. We investigated these …