A tax similar to the Sugar Levy and tougher regulations on food are needed to curb the UK’s obesity crisis, according to a ...

Dozens of people including some senior councillors are objecting to plans for a new McDonald’s in a Calderdale village.

Fortunes are being blown on injectable hopes of a slimmer future but a simpler and cheaper alternative could actually be in ...

But married men were 3.2 times more likely to be classed as technically obese than their unmarried counterparts, according to ...

Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than ...

Experts have suggested that the number of obese children and adults in the UK will rise substantially by 2050, with kids aged ...

The rise is blamed on soaring obesity rates in children, and in poorer nations in Asia and Africa. In the UK, the total will rocket to 49million from 38.4million in 2021, sparking fears of ...

“By identifying individuals in a preclinical obesity phase, where they are not yet classified as obese but are showing signs of metabolic dysregulation, there is an opportunity for earlier ...

Coun Hannah Bithell, Leeds City Council’s Obesity Champion, once weighed 23 stone, impacting her daily life and health.

Very few people are currently being prescribed drugs for weight loss on the NHS in Scotland, research by BBC Scotland News ...

New research found the risks of being overweight increase for both sexes when married, with men particularly impacted.