Study finds losing weight benefits mother and child, overturning decades of advice

London hospital says treatment is necessary to fight epidemic among children

Children should be taught how to grow and cook their own food at school as part of the national curriculum, to encourage them to eat more healthily as adults, MPs will say today.

There is more than one way to know whether you’re dangerously fat or not, but put down your calculator as new research suggests that the humble measuring tape is all you need.

Britain is facing a "tsunami" of pain as the number of osteoarthritis cases soars in the future, a leading expert has warned.

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A “sleep diet” may be the best way to slim for someone with an inherited tendency to put on weight, research suggests.

People are underestimating sugar levels in drinks which are perceived to be "healthy" options, according to new research.

Surgeons, psychiatrists, paediatricians and GPs launched a campaign today to battle rising levels of obesity, saying current strategies are not working.

We must nourish poorer children

Tall women are at greater risk of ovarian cancer, new research has shown.

Expanding waistlines are blamed today for soaring rates of kidney cancer which have more than doubled since the 1970s.

Take a cow. Chop it into pieces. Sell the immediately edible bits to supermarkets, ship its hide to a handbag factory, and send leftover bones and internal organs to some sort of rendering plant.

The meat product that's in all kinds of US food is causing a very unsavoury row