Although obesity prevalence and health inequalities remain high in the United Kingdom, there are few programmes designed to prevent or treat obesity in children aged 6 months to 5 years. Researchers ...

Almost half of GPs have seen children under seven years old who are obese, a survey of UK family doctors has revealed. Four in five GPs surveyed by medical organisation MDDUS said they find it ...

In a recent study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, researchers analyzed increases in socioeconomic and racial disparities in childhood overweight and adiposity in England from 1995 ...

The NHS incurs an estimated £340 million in additional health care costs annually due to weight-related health problems in children—but it is not just obesity driving the costs. New research from the ...

People with a serious mental illness (SMI), like schizophrenia, often experience obesity. And in the UK, such people are almost twice as likely to be obese compared to those without a diagnosis.