A new Swedish study reveals that maintaining a healthy BMI throughout childhood is crucial for optimal lung development.

Four out of five men and women in the United States will be overweight or obese by 2050 if current trends hold, a new study ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have ...

SOLNA, Sweden — Whether it’s being too skinny or being overweight as a child, a new study finds an unhealthy body mass index ...

Researchers said the analysis lays bare a ‘decades-long-failure’ to tackle the overweight and obesity epidemic ...

Almost a third of 10 and 11-year-olds in Devon are either obese or overweight, with almost a quarter in one area being obese.

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

The study authors were particularly alarmed by the steep rise in obesity among children, more than 1 in 3 of whom are now ...

More children have overweight in regions with high rates of single parenthood, low education levels, low income and high child poverty. The pandemic may also have reinforced this trend.