On June 1 the Baltimore City Council will consider a resolution to help curb the consumption of sugar among local children and teenagers, following a rise in obesity and adult onset diabetes in the city. And this week, Cara Shipley, a registered dietitian and Research Program Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Global Obesity Prevention Center, […]
As the U.S. suffers from an often discussed obesity epidemic, parents are perceiving their children’s weight as “about right,” even when there is clear evidence to the contrary, according to a new study published in the medical journal Childhood Obesity. Researchers from the New York University Langone Medical Center analyzed data from the National Health and […]
