New research shows high blood pressure in young children may lead to heart problems later in life. The study highlights the need for early ...

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...

Apollo Hospitals' report reveals a 'silent epidemic' of lifestyle diseases in India, urging a shift from symptom-based treatment to prevent...

Union Minister Jitendra Singh emphasized the urgent need to address the rising epidemic of type-2 diabetes and obesity in India, especially...

India faces a looming economic crisis due to rising obesity rates. The issue threatens to increase the nation's economic burden from $28.95...

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

besity rates in the U.S. remain high, with severe obesity particularly rising among women, according to new CDC research. The overall obesi...

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

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

The survey involving nearly 1,000 respondents from Delhi-NCR shows that children eat out a lot but barely indulge in physical activity.

However, children who used asthma inhalers when they had an attack were 43 per cent less likely to become obese.

Researchers from the Cincinnati Children's Medical Center reviewed more than 80 relevant breastfeeding studies that were conducted over a p...

The study suggests there is a relationship between long-term exposure to three specific types of family stressors and children becoming obe...

Women who had their first menstrual cycle at age 10 or younger, or age 17 or older, may be at a higher risk of developing heart disease, st...

Many public health activists have sought a steep hike in tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. They claim taxing the beverages—as has been done...

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