Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The figures were published in a 114-page report, published by Unicef, entitled “Feeding Profit: How food environments are failing ...

The NHS incurs an estimated £340 million in additional health care costs annually due to weight-related health problems in children—but it is not just obesity driving the costs. New research from the ...

(Gray News) - For the first time in history, more children are obese than underweight, according to a recent nutrition report. The United Nations Children’s Fund shared data from more than 190 ...

Empty hospital bed. — Image by © Tim Sandle. Empty hospital bed. — Image by © Tim Sandle. The focus, when it comes to children and incorrect weight, tends to be ...

(CNN) — More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected.

Around 10 per cent of children across the world are obese, surpassing - for the first time - the number of those who are underweight, a major study by children’s charity Unicef has found. Roughly 188 ...