A new initiative to combat childhood obesity in Louisiana will put 35 years of medical research into action by creating tools and programming for children, parents, teachers and primary care ...

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama on Tuesday unveiled “Let’s Move” - her national public awareness campaign against childhood obesity, a problem she says concerns her both as first lady and as a mom. One in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — It’s an effort to tackle one of Louisiana’s biggest health challenges: childhood obesity. This year’s childhood obesity conference is “Be the Reason Kids Greaux ...

The one-year anniversary of the first lady's "Let's Move" campaign to "end childhood obesity within a generation" was marked by celebratory speeches and fanfare - much of it generated by the White ...

Childhood obesity is now linked to increased stroke risk, according to new research published in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.

NEW YORK (AP) — Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) says it will make lower-calorie options and clear calorie labeling more widely available around the world, intensifying a push against critics who say its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Obesity is still rising among American adults, despite more than a decade of public awareness campaigns and other efforts to get people to watch their weight, and women have now ...

For the first time in history, more children worldwide are obese than underweight, according to a major Unicef report. Around 188 million children and teenagers aged five to 19—roughly one in 10—are ...