Forty-four percent of personnel in the Canadian Armed Forces are considered overweight while 28 per cent are classified as ...
In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived ...
China is aiming to beef up physical education in schools, making it core to the curriculum rather than a secondary subject, ...
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...
A new study found that, overall, children with obesity at the time of their cancer diagnosis had worse survival rates ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...
Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition causes ill-health, according to a new framework drawn up by experts and ...
including all children with newly diagnosed cancer aged 2 to 18 years across Canada from 2001 to 2020. Obesity was defined as age and sex-adjusted body mass index at or above the 95th percentile.
Wharton hopes that reframing obesity as a disease will help move away from people with larger body sizes being judged for their weight. Diabetes Canada, American Heart Association and Take Off ...