When you have a child, it triggers off so many important issues that losing baby weight can hardly qualify as a priority, believes Jenna Fischer. Full story

Last January, before it was time for Beyoncé to go to hospital, she was acutely aware that she was PEOPLE’s Most Beautiful Woman for this year, and she meant to look like one all through the delivery! Full story

It’s 4 weeks since Luca Cruz Comrie was born, and 4 weeks of Hilary Duff’s passionate involvement in motherhood. Well, Duff keeps proving she is ready for all challenges there can be! Full story

The legends about the success of many celebrities, who attended yoga classes and had a salt-free diet, are unlikely to have something to do with reality. Full story

The British fashion and tabloid press anticipates the major news, that is the pregnancy of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. At the interviews, she is flooded with questions about the estimated date of conception. Full story

Pregnancy puts on extra pounds on a woman. Some women put on just a few that they lose right after the baby is born, and some unlucky women even put on hundreds. Full story

The doctors call the weight, which is far from the norm, one of the factors that prevent conception. However, scientists have found that extreme thinness does more harm to our fertility than obesity. 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

An infant weighing 7.3 kg was born in July 2011 in the USA. The birth by caesarean section took place in Longview Clinic, Texas. Full story

There are means to get baby weight off efficiently and quickly, and Miranda Kerr knows them all! 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

The experts from the University of Oslo have proved that children do grow mainly during sleep. Of course, they grow during the day as well, but the rate of growth at night is 43% higher than of that during the daytime. Full story

As Claudia Schiffer strutted over the red carpet at Cannes a few days ago, she certainly drew a lot of attention, and quite a lot of it was on the account of her figure. Many people were struck by her thinness; the word “gaunt” was very much in use. The Daily Mail said the supermodel looked “skinnier than ever”, and RadarOnline was shocked enough to call in a nutritionist for an expert opinion. 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

There is an opinion that an expectant mother should eat for two. Perhaps this is the most common misconception among pregnant women. Pregnant women’s nutrition should be balanced, and it does not mean that a woman in the family way has to eat as much as possible. Full story

Stress at work on early stages of pregnancy increases the risk of the infant’s low birth weight. Full story

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

Bethenny Frankel, 39, whose first child, daughter Bryn Casey, will be two months old on July 8, made herself famous for getting onto the pages of Us Magazine wearing a size-4 swimsuit barely three weeks after giving birth… And now she is sure that enough’s enough. 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

Apnea, the disorder when an individual experiences pathological disruptions of regular breathing, often occurs during sleep in which case it is referred to as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). The cessation of breathing can last a minute or even longer and is often accompanied by loud snoring. 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

Luigi Orfeo, the head of maternity ward at Rummo hospital in the southern Italian city of Benevoto told journalists on Monday that all six twins born by the 32-year-old Italian woman Carmela Olivia on January 10 have a good chance to survive. Full story