By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of children and young people set to be ...

The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

She's a professor of health metrics sciences with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. Among high-income countries, America had the highest rates ...

Overweight and obesity rates in adults ... with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. Related Ultra-processed foods provide nearly half ...

Obesity is a “serious ... clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and founding president of the Association for Weight and Size ...

Global obesity prevalence more than doubled from ... at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, told Healio. “This crisis demands urgent, targeted ...

The substantial increases in obesity forecast between 2022 and ... Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, U.S. "Governments and the public health community ...