Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

More than 40 percent of Qataris are clinically obese, due to sedentary lifestyles, genetic factors, and cultural preferences ...

From school meals to food labelling standards, contributors to our mini-series on Cayman's obesity crisis highlight a range ...

Obesity is not just about physical appearance, it’s about health and well-being,” writes two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj ...

KUWAIT: Kuwait aims to reduce the prevalence of obesity among children under five to three percent by 2030, according to Dr Al-Munther Al-Hasawi, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for ...

KUWAIT: A study published in the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal in 2022 reveals that the prevalence of overweight children under five years old in Kuwait reached 10.78 percent between 2016 and ...

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

New research forthcoming in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that when people understand how income inequality creates disparities in healthcare and education access, they become ...

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse it, a study finds.

February is known as American Heart Month and OU Children’s Hospital kicked it off by spreading awareness about the number one birth defect in children, which is congenital heart defects.

Children’s eating habits are strongly influenced by their parents' weight status, with those having overweight or obese ...

A significant percentage of adolescents in the United States are living with hyperuricemia, a condition that is associated with obesity and risks for cardiometabolic complications, according to study ...