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The results from a ten-year study of children and adolescents who underwent a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) to treat severe...

Cleveland Clinic-led research has found that statistically overweight children who followed a healthy eating pattern significantly...

Two US studies have reported that children gained excess weight during the COVID-19 pandemic and the researchers urged policy-makers to...

The UK government will bring in an evening watershed for junk food ads in a move to tackle obesity problem. The move will ban television...

Spending cuts to children's support centres (Sure Start) in England have been associated with thousands more children having obesity over...

A study of 92 adolescents conducted in Brazil suggests girls are more likely than boys to develop metabolic alterations associated with...

COVID-19 and childhood obesity - While much has been written about poor food and lack of physical activity in schools, the data show that...

Men who had obesity in their late teens are more at risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the leg or lung in adult life, according to a...

Adolescent obesity is a serious and growing public health problem that threatens both current and future health outcomes, according to an...

Childhood overweight and obesity rates - In Spain, around 41% of children aged 6 to 9 years were overweight and/or had obesity in 2015....