You fail to lose weight? This can be explained by a number of reasons: laziness, wrong method, self-deception or... genetics. If you have a problem, it is unlikely that you thought the tendency for obesity to have been programmed at the stage of your development in the womb. It has been proved now. Full story

Overweight women can control their weight gain during pregnancy safely, without any threat for themselves or the child, as well as lose excess weight, sticking to the rules of proper nutrition. Full story

According to the researchers, fit parents can often pass on to their children special genes that will make them slim, too. The probability of a child being born thin is three times bigger in such a family. Full story

French scientists conducted a research and made a surprising conclusion: obese teenage girls are less affected by depression than the ones who have a few extra pounds. Full story

The scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health are alarmed that with each year passing by the number of obese children in the world is growing. Full story

A recent study has proven that teenage obesity increases cancer risks in the future. Full story

American scientists have discovered that one of the factors that encourages the increased appetite and the appearance of excess weight among girls is the availability of television in their room. Full story

The mother of two children from California (USA) has submitted a lawsuit against McDonald's. Monet Parham blames the fast food industry giant of the incorrect use of toys included into the Happy Meal and regards it to be an advertising campaign that violates the rights of consumers. Full story

The children, whose mothers were eating improperly during pregnancy, are more inclined to corpulence. Such conclusion has been made by an international group of scientists led by Keith Godfrey of the University of Southampton (UK). Full story

Dutch scientists have come to a curious conclusion: girls’ appetite turns out to depend on what dolls they play with. Full story

Today, people often ask themselves why, despite all the advances in modern medicine, so many babies are born dead. Every day in the UK 10 babies are stillborn, and it's almost 4,000 children a year. Full story

One of the factors closely linked with obesity threat is sleep pattern – this is the conclusion arrived at by specialists from the University of Chicago. They found that children who get ample sleep regularly and enjoy getting up later on weekends have less risk to gain excess weight or have metabolic dysfunctions. Full story

The epidemic of obesity engulfing the United States does not bypass children - this fact has been revealed in a study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion. The results of the study conducted by Wayne State University scientists show that approximately one third of American children are either overweight or obese. Full story

Xiao Hao, a three-year old Chinese boy weighing 60 kilograms has been banned from nursery school. The authorities are concerned he might accidentally run over his peers while playing. Full story

A third of the world’s children have been found to be overweight, according to a new study conducted by the World Health Organization and published in the Journal of Pediatrics. Full story

Donna Simpson weighs 600lbs, but doesn't think it's the limit. She is set on doubling her weight to become the world's fattest woman. Full story

The rate of children with excessive weight continues to ascend all over the world, and one of the reasons for that is a growing habit to snack, a recent study says. Furthermore, the research shows that children mostly snack on unhealthy food Full story

That’s the conclusion of a research described in a new study in Clinical Pediatrics. Scientists believe that before children reach the age of 2, the possibility of their putting on excessive weight has already been established. Full story

Breastfeeding is known to be a good means of decreasing the risk of putting on too much weight later in life. But so far there has been no research to tell us how breastfeeding should be combined with giving the child solid complementary food. Full story

It's not just overweight women who may face conception problems. According to Australian scientists, desired pregnancy may not be reached due to a man’s weight. It was the first evidence of how a man’s weight is linked to fertility problems. Full story

Everyone knows about comfort eating. But after researchers from King's College London did a series of studies, it has become clear what kind of stress some people are trying to eat away. Full story

British Heart Foundation has launched a campaign called Eat Smart aimed at children. The survey conducted by the foundation revealed that three out of four children have no idea about the effects of unhealthy eating. Full story

35-year-old British woman, Rachel Denton, managed to get pregnant naturally after losing weight in order to have in vitro fertilization (IVF). She spent years trying to get pregnant, but had no success because of her weight. Doctors claimed, she was too fat for IVF. She used to weigh 264 lb (120 kg). Full story

Hereditary obesity can be impeded if the would-be mother undergoes obesity surgery before she becomes pregnant, an article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism points out. According to previous research, the likeliness of overweight moms giving birth to overweight children runs pretty high, which may lead to health problems for both. Genetic factor and home environment aside, scientists concluded that a slimming surgery starts off metabolic and hormonal changes in the mother’s womb that lessen the risk of the baby having excessive weight. Full story

A recent study in Sleep reveals the interrelations between the size of a child’s body and his or her sleep efficiency. It appears that the smaller the child, the greater the risk of sleep disorders developing in future. Birth size, the study says, is in direct dependence on the development of the nervous system. A smaller child was discovered to be more prone to having breath difficulties during sleep which will lead to disturbed sleep and maybe nightmares in later life. Full story