Fortunes are being blown on injectable hopes of a slimmer future but a simpler and cheaper alternative could actually be in ...

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

Obesity in children under 14 set to rise by more than half by 2050, shocking research suggests - Experts said the global ...

Ultramarathon runner Russ Cook, who ran the length of Africa last year, has suggested daily 5km runs as a solution to Britain ...

NEARLY 50million Brits will be fat by 2050 — costing the NHS an estimated £10billion a year — as global obesity rates soar to record levels, studies show. Experts predict that without urgent ...

Married men were 3.2 times more likely to be obese than unmarried men while no such link was found for married women.

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

Very few people are currently being prescribed drugs for weight loss on the NHS in Scotland, research by BBC Scotland News ...

More than 500 year 6 children in Southampton have been measured as obese, council data shows. The figures for 2023/24 showed ...

The data for the UK has been analysed by the PA news agency. It shows that for children aged five to 14, obesity will rise from 12% of girls in 2021 to 18.4% in 2050 (a 53% rise), and from 9.9% to ...

“This could be due to a combination of increased awareness and improvements in cancer detection and treatment. But the stark ...

The gene the researchers identified interferes with a brain signalling pathway that helps regulate our appetite Dogs that are ...