NHS data lays bare Britain’s child obesity crisis - with kids as young as four treated for severe obesity because they weigh ...

NEARLY 6,500 children have been treated for obesity at NHS clinics since 2021 and hundreds were given fat jabs.  Figures show ...

Four-year-olds are among more than 6,000 children treated by the NHS for deadly complications of obesity. The official data ...

The provision of overweight and obesity management services in England is insufficient to meet growing demand, according to health experts who have called for an urgent review of services. A coalition ...

Providing access to specialist NHS weight loss clinics that support children and young people living with complications from ...

Hundreds of four-year-olds among ‘extremely overweight’ patients at 39 specialist centres since 2021 ...

In a recent article published in The Lancet Public Health, researchers examined the potential effects of systematically delivering obesity management interventions on the prevalence of childhood ...

While the research identifies obesity as a major cause, scientists say it does not account for the extent to which cancer rates are increasing ...

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded. Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in ...