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A medium- to high-intensity behavioral management program has been found to help obese school-age kids and teens lose weight and/or prevent further weight gain. While prevention of weight gain is ideal, the new report by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is significant because the research demonstrates that programming can help overweight kids lose weight.

Now What? Weight Loss Surgery for Kids photodisc Ping Pong Ball Saves Girl's Life photodisc Birthday Gifts for Girls Under $20 Next Grandpa learns he's "pregnant" at Oregon ER by Bethany Sanders Sep 29th 2008 6:00PM Weird but true"Could you be pregnant?" If you're a woman of child-bearing age, it's one of the first questions you'll hear when you need medical treatment.

As if anyone needed more reasons to keep from becoming obese or lose weight if you’re already there, plenty of recent news indicates more potential health problems for the large among us. Obesity cuts men’s fertility First up, even healthy men who are obese are less likely to have fathered a child than men of healthy weight.

Obesity Leads to Liver Damage in Teens in: Big Problems, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, Report, analysis   Problems associated with over-eating begin to mount In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.