Because of its ease of use, the BMI score is the main way health professionals evaluate overweight or obesity in children and adults. Here’s the problem: BMI is calculated strictly on a person’s ...

From electric-car sales to big sporting events and AI, here is a global round-up for 2026 from The Economist Intelligence ...

March 2020. The world is locked down, masks are currency, and Billy Gardell America’s favorite sitcom dad, the guy who made ...

Government agencies, researchers, civil society leaders, and global partners met last Oct. 14, 2025 for the SHAPE Asia Policy Lab, a landmark gathering focused on transforming how food is sold and ...

A reader responded to a recent article that addressed being too thin. “I am a woman who has been considered ‘obese’ her entire life based on the accepted method of judging body composition. I am ...

This week, the government shutdown entered its fifth week and, on Nov. 4, 2025, became the longest in history, beating a 34-day-plus record set ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The work is published in the journal Pediatric Obesity. This study is the first to build age- and sex-specific fat and muscle reference charts for youth, bridging a major gap between childhood and ...

A major European review finds that childhood obesity prevention must begin before conception, addressing both parents’ health and the social systems shaping family behaviours. Study: First 1000 Days ...

Dr Saleem Hughes, Pediatric Department Chair of SLBMC. (Photo courtesy Salma Crump) The rise in childhood obesity is seldom attributed to a single factor, but rather to a combination of environmental, ...

The faster a child takes bites during a meal or snack, the greater risk they have for developing obesity, according to researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences. But research ...