Family-based behavioral treatment for children can prevent metabolic disease later in life

Every parent wants to raise healthy kids who then grow up to become healthy adults.

But when a third of children in the U.S. are either overweight or obese, that goal seems increasingly elusive.

A new University at Buffalo study, covering 40 years of data and more than 1,000 families in different regions in the U.S., reveals that the family-based behavioral treatment developed at UB for children and parents who are overweight or obese can prevent children from developing metabolic disease when they grow up. ...