GPs should use their ‘clinical judgement’ to decide when a child’s obesity has become a safeguarding concern, according to ...

Childhood obesity is a growing public health issue affecting kids of all ages. Luckily, there are plenty of actions we can ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental risk factors during ...

Children with traumatic experiences in their early lives have a higher risk of obesity. But as our new research shows, this ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Large food portions for children and parents demanding they finish their meals could be fuelling Britain’s obesity crisis, ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

A new study found that, overall, children with obesity at the time of their cancer diagnosis had worse survival rates ...

The labels would flag whether a food or drink contains high, medium, or low levels of sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars ...

The British Nutrition Foundation has published guidance on how much food children should eat at mealtimes and the findings ...

The way clinicians diagnose obesity is set to change with new guidelines acknowledging that not all obese have the same ...

GPs are told to use additional metrics to diagnose overweight patients, rather than relying on body mass index alone ...