The figures, from NHS England, cover all patients with a diagnosis of obesity, meaning their excess weight was deemed to have fuelled their health issue. And they include 11,221 cases where ...

The figures, from NHS England, cover all patients with a diagnosis of obesity, meaning their excess weight was deemed to have fuelled their health issue. And they include 11,221 cases where ...

The new system would see people categorised as having either clinical obesity, if their weight is affecting their organ ...

This includes around 28 percent who are obese (with a BMI of 30 or more), double the percentage figure in 1990, when obesity affected just 14 percent of British adults. More than 10 percent of ...

Child and teen obesity spreading across the globe Is this the food that is making us all fat? Weight-related deaths can affect non-obese too British obesity rates have grown to 27% of people with ...

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

Weight loss jabs such as Wegovy are “lifelong treatments” and most people who stop taking them will lose the effects, a ...

Seven British patients who travelled to Turkey for weight loss surgery died after operations there, a BBC investigation into the trend has found. Others have returned home with serious health ...

Forcing your child to eat everything on their plate could fuel obesity, experts have warned. This warning comes after a new ...

Sport in British state schools is in ‘crisis’, with a ‘Covid cohort’ of children not returning to physical activity after the ...