Fearing Obesity

Number of those accepting that they are very overweight has dropped, raising fears that key health messages will be ignoredFewer than one in 10 people who are obese would ever describe themselves as such, according to research showing that most people...

Ever since definitions of healthy bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world has feared an obesity epidemic. But the food giants accused of making us fat are also profiting from the slimming industry.When you walk into a supermarket, what do you see?...

A Wisconsin couple who were worried that their infant daughter would become obese starved her for months, causing the girl to gain just 5 pounds in the 14 months after her birth, prosecutors allege.

Number of those accepting that they are very overweight has dropped, raising fears that key health messages will be ignoredFewer than one in 10 people who are obese would ever describe themselves as such, according to research showing that most people...

Ever since definitions of healthy bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world has feared an obesity epidemic. But the food giants accused of making us fat are also profiting from the slimming industry.When you walk into a supermarket, what do you see?...

A Wisconsin couple who were worried that their infant daughter would become obese starved her for months, causing the girl to gain just 5 pounds in the 14 months after her birth, prosecutors allege.