Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless ...

“It is governments rather than individuals that are required to address population-level drivers of obesity, such as its commercial determinants (e.g., marketing, pricing, and food industry ...

Obesity prevalence increased among both adults and children across all regions of the world from 1990 to 2021, and more than ...

The number of overweight and obese Aussie kids will skyrocket in the next five years without urgent intervention, a new ...

If observed trends over the past 30 years continue, the total number of adults ages 25 and older living with overweight (body ...

By 2050, we forecast that 2.2 million Australian children and adolescents will be living with obesity. A further 1.6 million ...

While poor diet and sedentary lifestyles are clearly drivers of the obesity epidemic, “there remains doubt” about the underlying causes for this, said Thorkild Sorensen, a researcher at the ...

A major international study has found children and adolescents in Australia have experienced some of the fastest transitions ...

Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study. But with significant increases predicted within the next ...

The researchers say to turn the tide on a looming public health crisis, a five-year action plan is needed to target the drivers of obesity: nutrition, activity, lifestyle and the environments ...