Obesity rates are forecast to skyrocket within the next quarter of a century, with a third of the world’s children and adolescents expected to be overweight or obese by 2050. Significant ...

I’m sure if I were to use the NHS BMI calculator, they’d both be classified as obese. Helen is 5ft ... Unfortunately one of our children got my ‘fat genes’ and the other got his.

The total number of fat cells stays equal after a diet program, study showed Bottom Line: Fat cells can shrink, but they ...

However, BMI does not distinguish muscle mass from fat mass, and may misclassify children as overweight. With regard to adult obesity, the Lancet Commission on Obesity and the European Association ...

More than three quarters of British adults will be too fat by 2050 a shocking ... Currently there are 2.4 million children aged five to 14 who are overweight or obese in the UK, the same as ...

The study used innovative technology that maps RNA molecules which are the basis for translating the genome into proteins.

A major global study estimates that 50 per cent of children and young people (aged 5–24 years) in Australia will be overweight or obese by 2050. Researchers say urgent action is needed to turn ...

The number of obese children and adults in the UK will rise substantially by 2050 – and by more than half in some age groups, figures suggest. The most comprehensive global analysis to date ...