Current childhood obesity prevention programs mostly focus on nutrition education and physical activity, which too often fail ...

The stress hormone cortisol can cause appetite and fat storage changes. Find out how to help fight this stress/weight-gain ...

Obesity and stress could magnify the risk of one of the most aggressive types of cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) found that stress-related ...

A new study led by UCLA investigators suggests that chronic stress and an unhealthy diet may work together to fuel the early ...

A Yale study found that lowering parent stress can help protect young children from obesity. When parents practiced mindfulness and stress-management skills, their kids showed healthier eating ...

A new Pediatrics study is putting a spotlight on something most parents don’t think about when it comes to kids’ health: ...

In recent years, rates of childhood obesity have been rising, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimating in 2024 that approximately one in five children and adolescents met the clinical ...

Despite the popularity of weight loss drugs, in most cases, obesity is not caused by a deficiency of GLP-1, the biochemical that these drugs mimic, and they have adverse side effects. Rather, boosting ...

This suggests that both stress and obesity can fuel pancreatic cancer growth through similar mechanisms. In mouse experiments, a high-fat diet alone led to the growth of precancerous pancreatic ...