The recent report highlighting Cyprus as one of the worst-performing countries in Europe for childhood obesity should serve as a wake-up call, not just for policymakers, but for families, educators ...

Obesity rates in children have been on the rise for decades, having quadrupled from 1990 to 2022, and along with the rise in obesity, comes a rise in health risks. However, obesity can be broken down ...

“Today, more than 1 in 5 young people (20.7%) live with overweight or obesity, and in Brazil, there are already about 17 million children and adolescents in this condition,” said the expert.

For the first time, more children worldwide are living with obesity than undernutrition. The shift indicates childhood malnutrition has entered a new phase, one that the world is ill-equipped to ...

Childhood obesity rates are declining slightly in Oklahoma, offering cautious optimism for families across the state. Pediatrician Dr. Scott Cyrus joined News On 6 to explain what the latest data ...

According to recent estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one in five children in the United States is affected by obesity. Research has shown obesity often begins in ...

More than 6,000 dangerously overweight kids have been treated at specialist NHS clinics in the last five years, according to figures that lay bare the scale of Britain’s childhood obesity crisis.

About 18.6% of children living in the Sannio area are clinically obese, but the percentage rises to 43% when including those ...

Hundreds of four-year-olds among ‘extremely overweight’ patients at 39 specialist centres since 2021 ...

A third of children in parts of the UK are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school, according to newly released data from the NHS. In a record high since the pandemic, that means one ...