Researchers at the University of Rochester are trying to determine whether a mother’s diet before giving birth and while ...

If you had a mother who made it a priority to take care of herself and schedule out “me time” amid a busy and chaotic ...

Michigan homeschool mom Ginny Yurich founded "1000 Hours Outside" to empower families to spend more time outside despite ...

Mothers influence their child’s weight both through passed-down genes and daily habits. Fathers' impact appears mostly ...

A new study suggests mothers’ genes could play an indirect role in shaping their children’s health, even when they aren’t ...

A mother’s genetics may play a bigger role in determining whether a child becomes overweight than a father’s, as a result of ...

Analysis revealed that while both parents’ genetics influence a child’s BMI, a mother’s BMI continued to affect the child’s ...

A new study finds that kids with obesity are more likely to have obese parents because they inherit obesity-related genes, ...

Receiving treatment within the first month of life could protect children for at least three years, a study suggests.

When researchers looked back at the risk factors and compared them to the non-obese children, two factors were connected to better outcomes for kids: A healthy body weight in a mom was associated ...

The study, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, tracked the same 875 mother-child pairs in Chile for 16 years, conducting assessments at ages 1, 5, 10 and 16.