In the 1990s, an overweight or obese child was considered an exception. Today, it’s slowly becoming the norm. A sweeping new ...

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

As a specialty registrar in pediatric dentistry, I've seen first-hand the pain children experience because of poor oral ...

The number of teenagers who are obese or overweight has soared by 50 per cent in England since 2008, researchers have ...

My daughter is six years old and is overweight. Other children at school tease her and call her fat. I do not want her to have an eating disorder, but I think she is about a stone overweight.

Children are fatter than ever before, official figures showed yesterday. Almost a third of youngsters between two and 15 are overweight, including one in six classed as clinically obese.

Dame Prue Leith has labelled food portion sizes “ridiculous” as she blamed obesity rates among children on our reliance on ...

As obesity rates rise among individuals with T1D, GLP-1 agonist medications, indicated for T2D and weight loss, are ...

Families in the Northeast are getting some of the best care in the country for their children, according to a new study.

If no immediate action is taken, more than half of the world’s adults and one third of children and adolescents will be overweight or obese by 2050. This projection comes from an international ...

Health experts and the United Nations child rights agency UNICEF are advocating for the government to introduce ...