More than 390 million children and adolescents were overweight or obese as of 2022, according to the World Health ...

The 2017 Philadelphia beverage tax aimed to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and improve pediatric health. While ...

Obesity in children can lead to severe health issues that persist into adulthood. While many factors contribute to childhood obesity - such as diet, physical activity and genetics - one ...

Despite the recent improvement in childhood obesity, the national rate remains higher than before the pandemic, when the rate jumped to 25.5 per cent. The data is from the government’s national ...

For years I avoided bar soaps because I only associated them with my skin feeling tight and dry, something I wanted to avoid at any cost. Instead, I relied on liquid body washes or shower oils.

By Gary Trust Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” holds at No. 1 for a 17th total week atop the Billboard Hot 100. Over the chart’s 66-year history, the song is now outright the longest ...

For children living in the most deprived areas, obesity prevalence was over twice as high compared with those living in the least deprived areas. The prevalence of obesity among reception children ...

More than a third of 10 and 11-year-olds in Plymouth are either obese or overweight. One in five year six children in the city (20.2%) were obese in the 2023/24 academic year, according to the ...

Analysis from the Institute of Public Policy Research has found that a postcode lottery of child obesity has evolved unequally during Conservative rule. Children in the most deprived parts of ...

As a result, she and her colleagues developed a computer model that uses advanced machine learning to reliably predict obesity in early childhood, as documented in the journal Obesity Pillars. The ...

The levels of obesity in the country’s most deprived areas for children starting their first school year are more than double those in the least deprived areas, according to new NHS figures. The ...