The obesity epidemic is hitting young kids where it hurts, in their feet, with new research showing heavy children suffer flatter arches and aching bones.

It's known that obese children tend to have "flatter" feet than their normal-weight peers, but it has been unclear whether that reflects a potential problem in the foot's bone structure or simply ...

So for the new study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, Australian researchers used ultrasound tests to examine the feet of 75 obese children and 75 thinner children between the ages ...