Family-Based Treatment Reduces Metabolic Disease Risk in Children

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.