CHILDREN as young as ten have had hip replacements on the NHS because they are so fat, shock figures show. They are going under the knife as childhood obesity levels soar, with one in three now ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...

Children’s eating habits are strongly influenced by their parents' weight status, with those having overweight or obese ...

Overweight children are more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life than their normal weight peers, a study claims. More than 150,000 people in the UK have MS ...

NHS figures show that obesity levels among young children are rising and it's having a 'major impact ' on their health.

Obesity is a nutritional diseases, one of the most significant of the 21st century, that has grown to epidemic proportions. Overweight and obesity, once considered a problem in high-income countries, ...

The children of obese mothers, but not obese fathers, were less able to self-regulate food consumption.

A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that advertising drives sales of high-sugar cereals market ...

Thousands of overweight children in Scotland, including tots as young as two, have been referred for specialist help. Since 2020/21, more than 4,000 youngsters, some still nursery age, have been ...