Posts in Children's Health

Risk Factors Predict Childhood Obesity

6th November 2012

High birth weight, rapid weight gain and having an overweight mother who smokes can all increase the risk of a baby becoming obese later in childhood, research by experts at The University of Nottingham has found.

The study, the first of its kind to review all the evidence for risk factors in infancy associated...

Categories: Weight Management, Children's Health

A Healthy Diet is Set Early in Life

30th November -0001

Promoting a healthy diet from infancy is important to prevent childhood obesity and the onset of chronic disease. This is the finding from a study published in the latest issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health which described quantity and diversity of food and drinks consumed by children aged...

Categories: Nutritional News, Children's Health