The bogonomics of the United States is not a straightforward tale of a nation getting fatter.
An estimated 3.2 million people had chronic pain in 2018,with that figure projected to increase to 5.2 million by 2050.
Critics fear the new wave of weight-loss drugs are being entrusted to nascent start-ups that have to sell ever-growing quantities to survive.
State government funding will be slashed from Victoria’s community health organisations including cuts to crucial preventative programs targeting vaping and obesity.
People living with obesity have had the odds against them for decades. Now experts say society needs to recognise that prevention and treatment are different things.
Every time Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt talks about body image there is one question she is always asked:‘Doesn’t embracing your body - whatever it looks like - promote obesity?’
More adults are practising yoga than playing soccer,golf or tennis,as individual activities squeeze out traditional team sports.
Experts want to reduce the stigma potentially preventing many of those with excess weight from accessing the healthcare they need.
Better science and promising weight-loss results from the new class of repurposed diabetes drugs are spurring a roaring comeback for medicines to treat obesity.
Scientists and advocates say new anti-obesity drugs generating remarkable levels of weight loss in clinical trials will change the conversation about obesity away from it being a choice and towards it being a disease.
A national plan to get kids moving has been urged following a study showing Australian children are more sedentary than those overseas.