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Obesity

March 2025

  • Scottee, Trina Nicole and Becky Scott in a composite image of them all working out in different ways

    ‘Plot twist - I’m still a fat person!’: meet the people proving you can be fit at any size

  • Close up of girl collecting fingerstick blood sample

    Type 2 diabetes increases risk of liver and pancreatic cancers, study shows

  • A close up of a scale being stood on

    Watchdog urges regular BMI checkups for millions across England and Wales

  • Jen* says her first time taking Ozempic was like flipping a switch on the food noise inside her head

    Ozempic can cost almost $2,000 a year. An Australian peak medical body says it should be on the PBS for weight loss

  • Why is Keir Starmer’s government seeking to cut the benefits bill?

  • Marriage triples risk of obesity in men – but not women, study reveals

  • Sizing up: how stadiums, hospitals and airlines are adapting to rise in obesity

  • Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study

  • One in two Australian children will be obese or overweight by 2050 unless ‘action taken now’

  • More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report

February 2025

  • Devi Sridhar

    We know so little about taking weight-loss drugs without prescription – is it really worth it?

    Devi Sridhar
  • A doctor speaking to a patient

    Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers

  • A woman drinking from a glass

    Weight-loss jabs may help reduce alcohol intake, study finds

  • packets of Wegovy weight-loss treatments

    Health insurer Vitality is first to offer UK members weight-loss jabs

  • One in five UK adults have diabetes or pre-diabetes, analysis shows

  • McDonald’s accused of tough tactics in fights with councils over new branches

  • Novo Nordisk confident despite Trump tariff risk as sales of weight-loss jab soar

  • Third of Spanish schools offering too much fried food – study

  • UK online pharmacies face stricter rules for sales of weight-loss jabs

  • Soft spaces out, stick-fighting in: Dutch call for the return of risky play

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