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

Pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of the disease, has been linked to obesity and higher stress levels, a new UCLA study found. Doctors share how to reduce the risk.

“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 ...

In addition to the biologic and behavioral causes of obesity discussed above, there are social drivers of obesity. While these social drivers can impact behavior, it's important to recognize that ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

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

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

Global rise of large food chains linked to obesity epidemic; unhealthy food sales spike dramatically over last decade.

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

Van Rhee will defend his thesis, titled "Unravelling the drivers of antimicrobial pharmacokinetic variability in individuals with obesity and hospitalised patients with multimorbidity," on 19 ...

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