An 8-year-old girl dreamed of performing cartwheels. But she was overweight — considered obese, in fact — and was unable to do so. She had high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels and ...

A MOTHER has sparked a huge debate after saying parents with obese children “must be arrested for child neglect.” The content ...

Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists at the University of Leeds. Researchers from ...

HealthDay News — Less than one-quarter of parents with overweight children recall their health care provider telling them that their child is overweight, according to study results study published ...

More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity ...

Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study. But with significant increases predicted within the next ...

At Thursday’s meeting (February 12) of the Northumberland Health and Wellbeing Board, the council’s senior public health manager David Turnbull said: “Two-thirds of adults are estimated to be ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) sees obesity as one of the greatest challenges for public health in the 21st century. The Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA) has now ...