Obesity

1.7m Brits are expected to be living with dementia by 2040 - more than double today's levels. (Picture: Adobe Stock)

1.7m people could have dementia in the UK by 2040

Wegovy is now available on the NHS

Weight-loss injection Wegovy now available on the NHS

Cadbury's are creating a 'diet chocolate' bar

Cadbury announces major chocolate recipe change

Over half of world on track to be overweight by 2035 warns experts

Half of world on track to be overweight by 2035 according to experts

Calorie counts to feature on menus from today to tackle obesity

Specialist NHS clinics for severely obese children and young people are to be set up in England as part of an intervention scheme (Photo: Shutterstock)

NHS treatment centres for children with obesity to open in England - here's how ...

John Ebo is keeping a video diary every month for a year

It's World Diabetes Day and we speak to a Leeds man who is keeping a video diary...

Katie Rhodes previously worked at Weight Watchers for 16 years.

Why weight management is a bigger issue than prior to the pandemic

The National Food Strategy is prompting much debate and discussion.

Food strategy is vital for agriculture – Yorkshire Post Letters

The Government's plans to tackle obesity will penalise the poor, argues Jason Reed.

Nanny state sugar taxes won’t defeat obesity – Jason Reed

New research from a university in Yorkshire has found being overweight is an additional burden on brain health and it may worsen Alzheimer’s disease. Photo credit: ADOBE STOCK

Obesity associated with higher risk for Alzheimer's, Yorkshire research reveals

Dame Sarah Storey is at the forefront of efforts toencourage children to walk or cycle to school across South Yorkshire.

How pupils walking and cycling to school will change South Yorkshire for the bet...

Boris Johnson takes his dog Dilyn for a walk at the start of a new campaign on obesity. Photo: 10 Downing Street.

Obesity and Boris Johnson’s Damascene conversion – The Yorkshire Post says

Singer Adele, seen here in 2016, has transformed her appearance. (PA).

Time to follow Adele’s lead and lose the lockdown pounds, says Christa Ackroyd

Obesity in the UK affects around one in every four adults (Photo: Shutterstock)

Why being overweight could put you at more risk of severe coronavirus symptoms

Woman who dropped six dress sizes after gastric bypass is fighting stigma of obe...

Energy drinks could be banned from sale to children in England.

Steve Brine: Why the Government plans to ban energy drinks for children

Most people, say Bernard Ingham, have never had it so good, Harold Macmillan's adage of 1959.

Bernard Ingham: Never had it so good '“ but we're crippled by malaise

Should all school meals be free?

GP Taylor: School dinners should be free '“ and fully British

Dr Andrew Furber who has just taken over as boss of Public Health England for Yorkshire and the Humber. (Jonathan Gawthorpe).

New Yorkshire health boss talks about the challenges facing the region

Library picture, posed by model

Yorkshire's junk food generation: 1.6m children overweight by time they leave pr...
More than 1.6m children who started secondary school in the past decade were overweight or obese, new calculations show.

Ponds Forge International Sports Centre

Sheffield leisure centres pioneer 20p '˜sugar tax' to combat obesity

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Womb cancer increase is fuelled by obesity, charity has warned

Should there be a tax on sugary drinks?

YP Letters: Pop tax not enough to tackle obesity

Regenix hits sales landmark for wound treatment

January 30: League tables must be clear

Obese people can now be considered disabled

EU ‘opens can of worms’ as it rules obese people qualify as disabled

Surgeon warns of kidney problems ‘timebomb’

NHS chief calls for radical action to head off crisis in public health

Unhealthy couples get conception advice

Obese mothers ‘can leave babies prone to diabetes and weight-gain’

64 per cent of adults are classified as obese

Tackling stereotypes in the war against obesity
Obesity is regarded as a modern day scourge, but is part of the problem the way it is portrayed in the media? Chris Bond reports.

Obesity in schoolchildren linked to lack of sleep

Diet and cookery lessons in battle against child obesity

Green light for new colour-coded food labelling system

Health: Operations for obesity soar by 530pc in five years

GPs urge get tough as obesity strategy ‘a failure’

Obesity blamed for rise in womb cancer cases

Fat is not all bad, say scientists whose gene research could help diabetes fight

Obesity blamed for rise in kidney cancer cases

Heavyweight problem breaks through the class barriers

Council spending squeeze could hit campaign to reduce obesity

Rob Lyons: Politicians should eat their words in the obesity debate

Cutting the fat

Health chiefs launch new battle to reduce obesity among young

Three-year plan set to promote sports over obesity crisis fears

Would you want to know how fast your body is ageing?

Rotherham’s obese clinic slammed as ‘heavy burden on the taxpayer’

Obesity threatens NHS and takes resources from deserving

Obesity tackled in children aged nine

Obesity in 'leisure' horses becomes big cause for concern

Obesity and drinking blamed for breast cancer rates in UK

Quarter of school pupils aged four to five are overweight or obese

Obesity still eating away at health of the nation

Obesity and alcohol identified as 'major factors' in cancer

Anti-obesity centre marks anniversary

City's affluent parents 'failing to heed risks of childhood obesity'

City's affluent parents 'failing to heed risks of childhood obesity'

Master chef puts family first on his recipe for life

Protein supplement may help beat obesity