CLEARING your plate has been a common rule in many households for generations of children wanting to escape the dining-room ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the ...

The new system would see people categorised as having either clinical obesity, if their weight is affecting their organ ...

Leading medics have raised concerns that people are being "overdiagnosed" with obesity, calling for a "reframing" of the way ...

The number of children who must share playgrounds well beyond their capacity has been described as a ‘postcode lottery’.

In a new report, global health experts are urging that we redefine the measurements used to determine whether someone is ...

Obesity has always been classified as a health risk, but for some it is an illness that needs to be correctly identified ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Prof Naveed Sattar, who leads the UK government's Obesity Healthcare Goals programme, external, says if everyone eligible was given the drug right away "it would simply bankrupt the NHS".

Calling people obese is medically "flawed" - and the definition should be split into two, a report from global experts says.

A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.