Overweight and obesity are serious public health concerns ... Education about portion sizes and label reading can be powerful tools for change. Staying active is equally important. The NHS recommends ...

The number of overweight trucks crossing the creakiest section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has been more than halved by the installation of overweight vehicle sensors, city transportation ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo. Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after ...

A study published Monday in the Lancet predicts that about 60% of adults and nearly a third of young people worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050. Halfpoint - stock.adobe.com In case you ...

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study said Tuesday. The research published ...

With the city still years away from taking action to shore up the triple cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, officials hope expanding a crackdown on overweight trucks will reduce ...

In a new WalletHub study, 100 of the most populated metropolitan areas were compared to 19 key indicators of weight-related problems to reveal which U.S. cities are the most overweight and obese ...

Obesity rates are forecast to skyrocket within the next quarter of a century, with a third of the world’s children and adolescents expected to be overweight or obese by 2050. Significant ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

One in three young people predicted to have overweight or obesity in 2050 The new analysis estimates that the global prevalence of overweight and obesity in young people rose substantially between ...