Listen up girls… spending too much time online, regularly drinking alcohol, and not getting enough sleep can make you gain weight, according to a new study in the Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers followed more than 5,000 girls between the ages of 14 and 21 for one year and found these three habits increased their BMI.

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The obesity epidemic is getting worse. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows about 25.6 percent of adults in the U.S. are obese - up nearly two-percent from 2005.
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And the winner is… a three-way tie between the low-fat, low-carb, and Mediterranean diets??? A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows all three have similar amounts of modest weight loss. But the debate rages on…
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Young children exercise a lot - an average of three hours a day when they’re nine years-old, says a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But by the time they’re 15, their daily physical activity is down to just 49 minutes on weekdays and about a half-hour on weekends.

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Eating nuts while you’re pregnant may create some problems for your kids. A new report from the Netherlands finds expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter every day raise the risk their children will develop asthma by 50 percent.

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Your kids might be eating foods that are worse than you think. A new study from the University of Calgary finds most food products aimed specifically at children have poor nutritional content even though more than half of them make positive claims on the front of the packaging. Researchers found nine out of 10 food [...]

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Here’s another obesity-related health problem - a new report from Spain says obese men are more likely to have poor semen quality.  But doctors aren’t sure if that necessarily means they’ll have a hard time having children.

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You might want to turn the television off when your kids are eating. Canadian researchers say kids who watched TV while eating lunch had 228 more calories than those who ate with the television off.

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Obesity is growing quickly in China. A new study from the University of North Carolina finds more than a quarter of the adult population is now overweight or obese, as people add more meat and dairy products to their diet. Of all the developing countries, only Mexico’s rate of adults becoming overweight is growing faster [...]

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I feel like the the bearer of bad news this week after just telling you about the American Academy of Pediatrics recommending some children as young as eight take cholesterol lowering drugs. Now a new study from the University of Michigan says with so many overweight and obese children, there will soon be a dramatic [...]

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