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...

Harvard researchers found that children and adolescents who consume beverages with non-nutritive sweeteners (NNSs) like saccharin and aspar...

Around six percent of children aged 0-5 in India were identified as obese or overweight, according to official data collected from anganwad...

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

The study found that mothers who are overweight may share the risk for obesity with their daughters and not their sons.

More than 4 billion people would be morbidly obese within the next 12 years.

WHO said obesity in kids one of the most serious health challenges of the 21st century.

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

Children of mothers who follow a healthy lifestyle have a lower risk of developing obesity and other disorders.

Globally, over two billion children and adults suffer from health problems related to being overweight or obese.

The findings represent "a growing and disturbing global public health crisis," according to a study published in The New England Journal of...

If current trends continue, by 2025, 268 mn children (age 5 years to 17.9 years) worldwide will suffer from excess bodyweight.

London, Oct 9 (IANS) In an indication that no policy interventions have proven very effective at changing current obesity trends, researche...

Researchers from University College London looked at data from more than 56,000 people born in Britain between 1946 and 2001 and found a cl...

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

Chinese scientists have claimed that drinking tea, especially Oolong variety, can help people shed weight.