Overweight or obese

Nearly three-quarters of Mexican adults are overweight or obese and their numbers have slightly increased in the past four years despite government programs to fight the epidemic, a government survey showed Thursday.

Of all the things you thought were bad about weighing more than you'd like, you might not have thought of this: a possible unwanted pregnancy.

More people in the UK are either overweight or obese than at any other time in the past three decades according to new analysis of dataNearly two-thirds of men and women in the UK are ...

World Cancer Research Fund review of global research finds link between obesity and advanced prostate cancer is strongMen who are overweight or obese have a higher chance of developing an aggressive and potentially fatal prostate ...

World Kidney Day is a global awareness campaign about the importance of our kidneys. It is commemorated every year on 9th March and this year the theme was 'Kidney Disease and Obesity'.

American children are at greater risk of becoming overweight or obese during summer vacation than during the school year, a new study has found.

Those who are overweight need not worry - it does not necessarily carry a higher death risk, say researchers from the University of California-Davis.Compared to those with normal weight, people who were overweight or obese ...

Working parents who send their children to daycare no longer need to worry about whether this puts their kids at increased risk for obesity, a U.S. study suggests.

According to a study, obesity leads to 13 types of cancer as fat cells affect the processes that regulate the growth of cancer cells in the human body.

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, with around 2.8 million people dying each year as a result of being overweight or obese, according to international health experts.Globalisation has brought fast food culture to Chinese cities, ...