VICTORIA, Australia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say about 40 percent of parents say they think their underweight or overweight children are average in weight.
TORONTO, May 9 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have concluded that 100 percent juice is not associated with young children being overweight or putting them at risk for becoming overweight.
ATLANTA, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Babies fed exclusively with breast milk are less likely to be overweight children than babies fed only with formula, a study of U.S. babies showed.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- An Ohio State University study says a child is more likely to be overweight if his mother was overweight before she became pregnant.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization estimates the number of overweight people in the world will rise from 1 billion today to 1.5 billion by 2015.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Being overweight is linked much more strongly with behavior problems in girls entering kindergarten than in boys, U.S. researchers said.
STANFORD, Calif., July 12 (UPI) -- The one factor that puts U.S. children at greatest risk of being overweight is obese parents, says study by the Stanford University School of Medicine.
NEW YORK, April 7 (UPI) -- Researchers have found 40 percent of New York children enrolled in a federal program to prevent malnutrition are overweight or in danger of becoming so.
LONDON, April 5 (UPI) -- A British cancer research group says only 3 percent of people in the United Kingdom know being overweight increases the risk for cancer.
