These chemicals are commonly found in plastics used in toys, personal care, and food packaging products. New study reveals common household products could affect your child's weight: 'The time in the ...

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

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 ...

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...

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.

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 ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental ...