India sees a significant rise in overweight and obese populations recently. Rural areas show a particularly sharp increase in these health ...

India faces a significant childhood obesity crisis with 41 million affected children. New government policies aim to curb unhealthy food ma...

Childhood obesity is a growing public health crisis in India, particularly in urban areas, with rising numbers often going unnoticed by fam...

India, grappling with persistent undernutrition, now faces a surge in childhood obesity, surpassing underweight as the primary malnutrition...

A new study introduces ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores that double the effectiveness of predicting adult obesity risk compared to c...

The Ministry of Women and Child Development is urging states to reduce edible oil consumption due to rising obesity rates, particularly amo...

India faces a growing obesity crisis, exacerbated by ultra-processed food consumption and aggressive marketing. Pharmaceutical companies ar...

Apollo launches the Pediatric ProHealth Programme to address the rise of non-communicable diseases in children. The program customizes test...

From diabetes to infertility and cardiovascular problems, childhood obesity can lead to many health scares.

New research suggests the biology, environment and the food they share contributes to children's future health.

The latest National Family Health Survey, which was conducted in 22 states in pre-pandemic times, presented a dire picture of nutrition of ...

Obesity is a pandemic disease and is one of the primary causes of preventable death.

Polycystic ovarian disease and obesity have been identified as risk factors causing type 2 diabetes in women.

China probably hopes that the scrapping of its one-child policy – which had led to chubby ‘little emperors’ – will thin out averages, too, ...

The high blood pressure risk in obese children and teenagers is up to six times greater than those of a healthy weight, a new study has war...

A new AIIMS study on 10,000 Delhi schoolchildren has found that 3-4% of them suffered from hypertension.

Food companies cut spending on television ads that market less-healthy food in the US to children and increased marketing on the Internet a...