The number of overweight and obese people has reached almost one billion in the developing world – overtaking rates in…
Read More
US states are a lot fatter than we thought
The obesity rates of many U.S. states are actually higher than previously thought, a new study finds. The new findings…
Read More
Schools increasingly check students for obesity
The Chula Vista school district not only measures the academic progress of Marina Beltran’s second-grader, it also measures her son’s…
Read More
A plunge in US preschool obesity? Not so fast, experts say
If the news last month that the prevalence of obesity among American preschoolers had plunged 43 percent in a decade…
Read More
Americans cutting back on fast food, consuming fewer calories
Years of warnings by health officials and grim news on the bathroom scale appear to finally be having an impact…
Read More