It’s important to help our kids maintain a healthy weight. But sometimes well-intentioned interventions can cause more harm ...

One of the biggest health problems among American children today is obesity. And the diabetes that follows obesity. And rates of obesity have almost tripled among children in many parts of the ...

Although child obesity rates appear to be stabilising in ... fattening food is one of the main drivers. Charts produced by the World Health Organisation show how weight gain is measured in boys ...

The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.

Tens of thousands of children who became overweight or obese during the pandemic could face "lifelong health consequences", researchers say. Obesity rates rose sharply among 10 and 11-year-olds in ...

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 ...