Yes, that applies to the state of our representative democracy, but it's also true of the people who live here. Compared to ...

A research team from Columbia, Berkeley and LSE linked obesity levels in schoolchildren to the proximity of fast food restaurants to schools. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in obesity, ...

Fast food has long been criticized for its association with unhealthy eating habits and its contribution to the rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases. Unlike the debate over healthy cheese ...

Most Americans eat too fast, and, as a result ... at a meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity showed that overweight men and women took in fewer calories when they ...

At the same time, obesity ... food hardships is particularly consequential for the health of women” said Professor Jackson. In the future, the authors plan to continue to research how difficulties ...

She examines the number of fast-food outlets that are close to schools ... How serious is the childhood obesity problem? More than one in five children are overweight or obese when they start ...

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

Childhood obesity is mainly a problem of modern India, teeming with American-style malls, fast food outlets and newfound luxuries like cars and air conditioning that have dramatically changed the ...

Obesity is an escalating problem in Italy and France as well as in the UK due to the growing popularity of fast food and UPFs, says Dr Jean-Michel Cohen, a French nutritionist. But the traditional ...