A Michigan mother was charged with first-degree child abuse for allegedly abandoning her children for years, leaving them in ...

"Obviously, the trauma here is significant," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said in announcing the charges ...

So now two of my three kids are overweight. It is very hard when I ... by the fact that none of this would have happened around my mother's table. She cooked everything from raw ingredients.

The children of obese mothers, but not obese fathers, were less able to self-regulate food consumption.

Women who are overweight and obese have lowered prolactin ... but significant role in preventing future obesity in the mother and child. Midwifery management of obesity-related lactation problems ...

Greaux Healthy—a public service initiative powered by Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in partnership with the State of Louisiana—has released the Childhood Obesity Prevention, Evaluation and ...

Results: Four of six included studies of prenatal exposure to maternal diabetes found higher prevalence of childhood overweight or obesity among offspring of diabetic mothers, with the highest ...

Children are fatter than ever before, official figures showed yesterday. Almost a third of youngsters between two and 15 are overweight, including one in six classed as clinically obese.

The study examined how neural responses to food cues differ between children with overweight/obese parents ... discovered that the children of obese mothers, but not obese fathers, were more ...