The World Health Organisation has backed the use of diabetes and weight-loss drugs to fight rising obesity levels but warned that access in...

Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new repor...

Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a “monumental societal failure” to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults ...

More than a billion people globally are now considered obese, a condition linked to an increased risk of numerous serious health problems,...

More than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a new report. T...

A boy once known as the world’s fattest boy has transformed his life and his body and is now unrecognisable. Arya Permana, 16, says he’s no...

Children in Cyprus are among the most unfit in Europe, while one in two (49%) aged 7-9 years old struggle with obesity, research presented ...

Obese people now outnumber smokers by two to one, Cancer Research UK has warned, as it said  obesity  causes more cases of some cancers than...