The UK is facing a public health emergency as obesity rates continue to rise at alarming levels, MPs warned in a Westminster Hall debate on Monday. With two-thirds of adults overweight and childhood ...

Childhood obesity rates are rising and global figures don't make for easy reading. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...

The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of ...

Keeping kids healthy can be a big job. From the day their children are born, parents ferry them to and from medical offices, ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...

New research has found that putting lower-calorie meal choices at the top of a restaurant menu, and reducing the availability of high-calorie options, makes teenagers more likely to order the ...

It is rare indeed for Philip Bump to take stock of a sudden pronouncement from President Donald Trump and say, “Yes … more .” ...

The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again ...

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 ...

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

"With overweight and obesity affecting nearly one in three children in this country ... All age groups in the United States are experiencing a "high severity" of influenza cases among all age ...