Many fat acceptance influencers proclaim that no child should ever be put on a diet. Some even call this abuse. They believe kids should be allowed to eat whatever and how much they want. [...]
Is your child overweight? There’s a link between childhood obesity, intellectual functioning and type 2 diabetes. Intellectual impairment accompanies obese adolescents who have type 2 diabetes, according to a study. When obese adolescents with type [...]
If your child is overweight, this is more than a matter of self-esteem. It's a matter of high blood pressure. Even if an obese child can play tag, jump on a trampoline and ride a [...]
If your young child upchucks only overnight, the likely cause will really surprise you. “If your preschooler vomits only at night, my first thought as a pediatrician would be that it is a behavioral issue,” [...]
If you discover what appears to be blood mixed with your toddler’s poops, first ask yourself if your toddler has just started a course of antibiotics. […]
Obesity can cause high blood pressure in children, so would it be practical to give an overweight child regular home blood pressure checks? […]
At what point does a preschooler's or baby's temperature cross over to that of a fever? This is something that every parent should know. A fever likely means that your child is fighting off an [...]
Have you noticed how common it is for parents to bring their babies into public buildings without their feet covered? Ironically, if an adult is barefoot in a restaurant, he or she will be told [...]
If you just had a big baby, rather than picture him one day as a wrestling star, you should picture him or her one day having type 2 diabetes. […]
With all this talk about not being able to tell someone's health by their size, what about children? Can fat kids be healthy too? Is childhood obesity blown out of proportion? Isn't it really odd [...]
Vaginal discharge with irritation is the most common gynecological problem in girls before puberty. […]
A woman who admits to being 265 pounds has posted on Instagram a video of her and her child hollering “Boooo!” at a diet commercial. If you happen to find her video, posted on Jan. [...]
You may be promoting unhealthy eating habits and eventually obesity by teaching your overweight child that she’s perfect just the way she is. • This isn’t about body shaming. • This isn’t about demeaning a [...]
Has the body positivity movement gone too far, with bopo influencers telling their children to think it’s okay to have crooked teeth? […]
If your child has scoliosis, you’d better make sure it’s monitored and appropriately treated – even if you don’t have health insurance. […]
Here’s what to do if your child has a black or grey hard lump inside the mouth on the bottom lip. […]
It’s alarming when changing your infant’s diaper you see specks or drops of blood in the stools. […]
Perhaps you know that new-onset inverted nipples in a woman can signal breast cancer, but what’s going on when a baby is born with inverted nipples? […]
Some babies are fat and tubby while others are skinny and scrawny. And many fall in between somewhere. What makes one baby fat and the next one thin? Is it as simple as some babies [...]
Are your baby’s eyes or even just one of them crusted shut every morning? Here is what’s causing this and what you can do about it. “In the first few months, a parent may note [...]
The causes of a young child often taking deep breaths while at rest range from perfectly benign to conditions that require medical intervention. “Children often have periods of shallow breathing,” says Dr. Lisa Lewis, MD, [...]
Is obesity in children more about genes or bad parenting? The following seems to true: Parents who seriously work out and watch what they eat rarely have obese kids. And it also seems as though [...]
Is it really possible for a preschool child to deliberately hold in his or her bowel movements for up to three weeks? “If a preschooler truly has not had a BM for three weeks, I [...]
Why is your preschooler so thirsty all the time, always asking for drinks, yet bloodwork is normal including for diabetes? There was even a case in which a preschool aged child would get up in [...]
Should you worry if your child’s poop is the size of a baseball? Sometimes the huge size of a child’s bowel movements has their parents worrying that something is wrong. […]
Many parents immediately think of cancer when they notice that only one tonsil is enlarged in their child. But there is another condition that the parent should immediately consider. […]
There are several conditions that can cause bad armpit odor in a preschooler, toddler or grade school child. However, armpit odor in a toddler gets the most attention because, well, isn’t a toddler too young [...]
Your baby’s head should NOT be smelling like sweaty feet or, as some describe, dirty socks. This means something is wrong. Any foul odor from your baby’s head or scalp is never normal. [...]
Obesity in children is dangerous, period. But just how dangerous? Kids, quite simply, should never be fat. Body positivity will NOT subdue the harmful effects of overweight. Never. Instead of preaching body positivity to your [...]
If your little girl has expressed an interest in “getting muscles,” what should you do? First off, what you should NEVER do is take this new interest to mean that your young daughter is heading [...]
Every week a Facebook or Instagram image of a fat or overweight woman goes viral: The latest is an obese woman in a bikini standing beside her overweight very young daughter. […]
Will enough growth hormone injections cause a short child to grow enough to actually be tall for their age? After all, why stop at just “not as short” when you can achieve “taller than average,” [...]
Think long and hard before sending your obese child to that luxurious “fat camp” tucked away in the majestic mountains somewhere. […]
If the average obese child is sedentary, did the obesity cause the inactivity? Or does being "lazy" cause the excess fat to pile up in a child's body? “This answer depends on the child,” says [...]
An obese child does NOT need to sit on the sidelines while thinner kids participate in sports. There are plenty of exciting sports that fat children can excel in or just plain gain loads of [...]
Childhood obesity is overwhelmingly the result of bad diet and lack of exercise, rather than genetics or heredity. Parents, are you listening? “The CDC estimates that 18.5% of U.S. children are obese, and approximately one [...]
So here’s the answer to whether or not obese kids should do pushups: This should be based on a case-by-case standard. There are interesting variables. In general, as a fitness expert and former personal trainer, [...]
If your child is obese, it's SO SAFE to get him/her into weightlifting for fantastic benefits! Obese children in particular will greatly benefit from lifting weights, and this article explains the details. Obese children as [...]
It’s hardly a bad thing when little girls start worrying about their weight. A little girl worrying about being fat isn’t such a terrible thing – especially if she is clearly headed in that direction. [...]
Why do women feed their Prader-Willi kids cereal for breakfast? I was inspired to write this article after reading about a women whose 14-year-old daughter weighs 343 pounds (as of August 2014). Hannah has Prader-Willi [...]
