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FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) — Breast-feeding reduces the risk of obesity in children born to mothers with diabetes during their pregnancy, a new study indicates. Researchers followed 94 children of diabetic mothers and 399 children of non-diabetic mothers from birth until age 13. It’s known that children of diabetic pregnancies are at increased risk [...]

Published: Jan. 19, 2012 at 1:48 AM UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Jan. 19 (UPI) — Weight gain — at least for middle school students — has nothing to do with junk food they can purchase at school, U.S. researchers found. Lead author Jennifer Van Hook of the Pennsylvania State University and Claire E. Altman, a sociology [...]

Published: Jan. 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM CINCINNATI, Jan. 4 (UPI) — Three-fourths of U.S. preschool-age children are in child care centers with little opportunity for recommended levels of physical activity, researchers say. Kristen A. Copeland of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and colleagues said the study involved nine focus groups with 49 child care [...]

THURSDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) — In what might serve as a hopeful sign for all children in the United States, a new study finds that obesity rates among New York City‘s school children have dropped slightly in the past five years, particularly among the youngest. Although the relative decline in obesity rates is only [...]

THURSDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) — In what might serve as a hopeful sign for all children in the United States, a new study finds that obesity rates among New York City‘s school children have dropped slightly in the past five years, particularly among the youngest. Although the absolute decline in the obesity rate is [...]

Published: Oct. 4, 2011 at 8:48 PM SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 4 (UPI) — In Utah, child abuse homicide offenders appear to be convicted at a rate similar to that of adult homicide offenders, researchers found. Dr. Hilary A. Hewes and colleagues of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City examined homicide data from [...]

Published: Aug. 17, 2011 at 2:03 AM WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 17 (UPI) — Separation anxiety may affect both U.S. children and their parents on the first day of school, a professor of counseling says. Samuel T. Gladding, professor of counseling at Wake Forest University and author of the book “Family Therapy,” says not being well-prepared [...]