Most adults, a third of children will be overweight or obese by 2050: Study | Health News
A third of such people will be living in two regions – MENA and Latin America and the Caribbean, researchers warn.Nearly 60 percent of all…
Major change to online fat jab sales in bid to stop people pretending to be obese to get drug
ONLINE fat jab sales will be tightened up with video or face-to-face chats mandatory under new industry rules.Pharmacies selling weight loss injections have been told…
Bodybuilder, 19, found dead at his home after ‘suffering heart attack’ as tributes pour in for teen who used to be obese
A TEENAGE bodybuilder with a “brilliant future” ahead of him has been found dead at his home in Brazil.Matheus Pavlak, 19, had taken up the gruelling…
Obese Brits struggling to work as study shows overweight people take more sick days
OBESE Britons are struggling to work as a study shows overweight people take more sick days. Just being overweight, like two thirds of UK adults,…
Video shows firefighters use CRANE to evict morbidly obese woman from her flat…because she’s too big to get out the door
FIREFIGHTERS have had to deploy a crane to evict a morbidly obese woman who had been illegally squatting in a flat in Palma. Upon removal,…
More than 1 BILLION people around the world are now obese and at risk of killer diseases – including 159m children
ONE billion people worldwide are now fat, says the World Health Organization. Obesity rates have rocketed since 1990, doubling in adults and quadrupling in children…