The urgency of tackling obesity has been brought to the fore by evidence of a link to an increased risk from Covid-19. The UK is one of the heaviest nations. It’s estimated 64 percent of British ...

A survey conducted by Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital and local health and education bureaus, Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, with 2,000 6-to-7-year-old children, ...

IT has been obvious for a long time that there is a serious obesity problem among children in Scotland, but the scale of it is still striking. According to figures from Cancer Research UK, almost ...

A recent blog on the health risks of being overweight triggered a few responses that might have been either from the so-called fat-acceptance advocates, or their distant cousins and current ...

As if the list of only-child stereotypes wasn’t long enough, a new one has been brewing: Children without siblings are at a higher risk for being overweight and obese, as are daughters and youngest ...