In a society of high intensity soccer games and after-school swim practices, yoga is growing favor as both an alternative and a complement to traditional sports kids play.

Nancy Wile, the founder of Yoga to Go says, "Yoga is proving to be great for both competitive and non-competitive children. Because it helps strengthen the body and reduce anxiety, it's ideal for developing bodies

Doctors warn, as toddlers begin eating "grown-up" food, they may also develop grown-up eating habits - like too much junk food and too few vegetables.

Pediatric experts have recently warned of an increasing number of overweight 2-year-olds

The World Health Organization announces Wednesday that heart disease, diabetes and other chronic ailments will kill almost 400 million people over the next 10 years. However, it adds many of those deaths can be prevented by better lifestyles and inexpensive medication

Doctors warn that obesity increases a pregnant women's risk of miscarriage and other serious, even life-threatening complications such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and gestational diabetes.

They say the higher the body mass index a woman has, the higher the chance of a Caesarean section

Eating soy-based foods slows down osteoporosis in women after menopause, according to researchers.

Bone loss is particularly quick in women during the five to seven years after menopause when a drop-off in estrogen levels may cause them to lose up to 5 percent of bone mass yearly, the report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine said