Childhood Obesity
From the Kitchen to the Bedroom
The link is more profound and more specific than many people expected. This information is so important because more than 1 in 3 children today end up overweight even as kids.[i] Sleep in kids has bee…
You Are What You Sleep
How your children sleep may change their body composition ? their lean body mass, total body fat, abdominal fat, and waist and hip circumference. A fascinating new study showed tight links between kid…
Early Puberty in Girls
Dr. Greene's take on early puberty: Question: My 8 yr old daughter is showing signs of premature onset of pubery; she has adult-grade underarm odor, blemishes, headaches, and a few hairs under her arm…
Pediatricians’ Trick-or-Treat Bags
Each year thousands of pediatricians gather for a national conference to catch up on the latest science and with each other. There's also a huge exhibit hall, as in so many professional and trade conf…
Food Day: A Great New Holiday
Food Day, my favorite new holiday, is a simple but profound celebration of something all humans share ? we become the food we eat. The first annual Food Day (foodday.org), debuts October 24, sponsored…
To Solve Obesity, We Must Change the Way We Feed Babies
Waiting until school age is too late, according to a welcome 2011 Institute of Medicine report called Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies. The report documents the critical role of early learn…
Choose Your Future
Every time you choose a food, you choose your future ? the future of your body, your community, our land, our water, and our air. You might be choosing a future that's better, that's worse, or that st…
Kids’ Meal Toys with Unhealthy Fast Food?
Our county was the first in the nation to ban restaurants from using toy giveaways to lure kids to high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium, high-sugar kids' meals. Under the ban it is fine to offer toys w…
Chubby Babies: Is the Baby Fat Here to Stay?
Dr. Greene's take on baby fat... How quickly does being overweight affect health? Overweight babies and toddlers under age 2 already show signs of health problems according to a study in the August 20…
ADHD and Obesity in Kids
The diagnosis of ADHD increased 100 percent in just a decade. The percentage of kids who are overweight increased 100 percent between 1980 and 2002 (and increased 200 percent in teens). Is there a lin…
Cholesterol, Drugs, and Kids
Controversial new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics call for more children to get their cholesterol checked, starting as young as age 2, and for some kids to be started on statin drug…
Burning Fat
What kind of exercise is most effective for burning fat in children? A new study delivers an objective answer. It's no secret that childhood obesity has become a major problem, nor that physical activ…
Soccer and Weight Loss
A fun, practical, affordable way to help overweight kids? My friend and colleague, Dana Weintraub, MD, from the Division of General Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Lucile …
Adult Diabetes and Kids
A huge study of millions of kids revealed for the first time the true measure of type 2 diabetes in children in the United States. The results appeared in the June 27, 2007 Journal of the American Med…
TV Commercials Impact Childhood Obesity: You Are What You Watch?!
Do TV commercials impact childhood obesity? Television commercials work. They work well enough that it makes sense for fast food restaurants and junk food manufacturers to spend lots of money to entic…
Brain Food For Your Kids: How Do You Score?
Each day at school, millions of children are faced with a lunch that actually works against them. Unhealthy versions of French fries, chips, hot dogs, burgers, and pizza fill school cafeterias; partia…
Baby Fat
Dr. Greene's take on baby fat... I often hear from parents who expect that their cute, chubby young children will naturally thin out the baby fat as their height spurts up. Unfortunately, it doesn't t…
An Important Message from Rob Reiner
Many people know me as an actor and director, but my most important role is that of a father to my three children. Raising healthy, happy children is my top priority. That is why my organization, Pare…
Kids’ Diets and Adults’ Hearts
How do kids' diets affect their hearts when they're older? How much kids weigh is important, but whether they depart from their own growth curve lines appears to be even more important - even for kids…
Overweight: Not Just Skin Deep
More than a third of overweight kids, age 2 through 18, already have elevated blood pressure, according to a study of 497 kids that appears in the August 2005 Pediatrics. About half of the kids with h…