Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

The number of obese children and adults in the UK will rise substantially by 2050 - and by more than half in some age groups, ...

Researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence of obesity in the United States.

Obesity rates are set to skyrocket ... and societal costs across future generations," she said. "With this age group increasingly being out of school and cared for by adult services, we need ...

More than three in four adults in the UK will be obese or overweight by 2050, a Lancet study has revealed. Experts predict ...

The percentage of children under five who are overweight increased from 2.1% to 3.4% between 2015-16 and 2019-21, according ...

India will have 450 million adults who are overweight or obese, accounting for 11.8% of the global population that is ...

But by age 9 ... in BMI between the two groups. Researchers said these findings reinforce the idea that diet and exercise are not enough to mitigate childhood obesity, but promoting responsive ...

In 2021, 180 million Indians were either overweight or obese, second only to China. The report estimates that for India, the ...