Obese or overweight women are more likely to develop life-threatening health complications during pregnancy, new research has revealed. Their risk ...

We give companies the ability to advertise harmful foods to children in a misleading way. We make healthier food more expensive and harder to come by. We create living environments not conducive to active lives. We then chastise the obese for not exercising their personal choice as if they made that choice in a vacuum.

A man once dubbed the world's fattest says he is looking forward to a normal life after shedding 46 stone. Former postman Paul Mason, from Ipswich,...

Blaming the food industry for making you fat is a bit like blaming Hooters because your husband likes breasts. It may be comforting to curse the corporate giants as you reach for another chocolate digestive, but it's attitudes like this that will end up destroying the NHS.

If your body is restricting you from doing the things you want to do, then being fitter will make you happy. Where it becomes unhealthy, in my view, is when we begin to tell ourselves things like "when I weigh x amount I'll be happy".

Living a healthy lifestyle into old age can extend your innings by up to six years, research has shown. Until now it has not been clear whether fac...

Whether you call it 'yo-yo dieting' or 'weight cycling', the repetitive loss and regain of body weight is generally thought to thwart women's chances ...

While most of the world seems to be fixated on diets as the solution to weight problems, most women who are over 40 and overweight, know (from personal experience) that diets don't work.

Ladies, we're having some tummy trouble. If we're to cut our risk of diseases and health implications, like breast cancer and infertility, we need to lose some inches from our waists.

A new study shows that the increase in the average weight of populations is helping to put unsustainable pressure on the world’s natural resources. ...

One of the great pleasures of my job is that I get to help people take control of their weight and health. It is a journey that I have had to take my...

An ambulance service based in West Sussex and Surrey has spent £400,000 on three vehicles designed to carry obese patients weighing up to 50 stone. ...

It may not seem like rocket science, but researchers have discovered that sitting around really does make your backside bigger. According to the r...

Diets don't work, according to Peter Walsh. He believes they're destined for failure because they focus on what foods you should and shouldn't eat and...

The average Brit will gain up to half a stone over the festive period, as the temptation of never-ending chocolates, mince pies and savoury snacks get...

The Government has disbanded its expert advisory group on obesity. The group advised on policy as well as its implementation and eval...

A drug injection that attacks the blood supply to fat cells in the body, could help obese people shed 40% of their body fat in just a month. Resear...

A stomach implant that can trick the brain into thinking the stomach is full is the latest hi-tech gadget that experts hope will help fight the flab a...

Experts have discovered that overweight people who blame their size on the 'fat gene' aren't as powerless as they think, because there is a way of rev...

It has long since been the enemy of the body-conscious, but a 'muffin top' wasitline could pose a far more serious threat to women, according to scien...

Brits can eat more calories per day, say government scientists. The new calorie recommendations say that men can now eat around 2,605 calories of food...