People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...

UK obesity rates may start dropping “significantly” this year because of weight loss jabs, according to one of the biggest online sellers of the medications. The country may have reached peak ...

England is lumbering towards an epidemic of obesity. One in five people is classified as obese, a proportion which has tripled in 20 years. An astonishing 58 per cent of the adult population is ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Obesity has always been classified as a health risk, but for some it is an illness that needs to be correctly identified ...

The guidance, backed by 76 global organisations including the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and the Association for the Study of Obesity UK, would overhaul the way obesity is ...

Obesity now causes more cases of four common cancers in the UK than smoking, according to a charity. Cancer Research UK says bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been ...

Obesity levels in the UK may have peaked and could start dropping ‘significantly’ in 2025 due to weight loss jabs, according to one of the biggest online sellers of the medication. The ...

A report says obesity can affect a person’s ability to work and their underlying mental health Obesity costs the United Kingdom National Health Service, NHS £5.1 billion per year, according to ...

Yet France and Italy have much lower obesity rates than the UK. How is that so, and are there lessons we could learn from our European neighbours? The UK is one of the heaviest nations in Europe ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass index (BMI) ...