Worried about your child’s weight? You can do more than just nag him or her about eating too much junk food. Implementing three healthy family habits–eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV–may help. The combination of these three habits is associated with a lower risk of obesity in children, according to a new study. The...

Michelle Obama’s Not Alone: Parents Ask—Is it Baby Fat or Obesity? obesity Desani Marshall was never really overweight, but she was always a little big for her age. During a checkup at age 4, her doctor pointed out to her mother that Desani was gaining weight more rapidly than he thought was normal. Six months later, she was still putting on pounds at a rapid...

Obesity Counties People who want to maintain a healthy weight over time shouldn’t obsess about their fat intake, new research shows. The percentage of calories that a person got from fat, as opposed to protein or carbohydrates, had nothing to do with how much weight they gained in the coming years, the research team found. The kinds of fat they ate didn’t matter...