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Obesity

March 2025

  • Overhead view of spectators sitting in rows

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

  • Female traditional dancers perform amaraba traditional dance at club ‘rafiki’ (Swahili word for ‘friend’) centre in Kigali, Rwanda.

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

  • children playing at school

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

  • Lower legs and feet of person standing on weighing scales

    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

January 2025

  • A woman holds an Ozempic auto-injector.

    Why isn’t Ozempic on Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for weight loss? And should it be?

  • A dosage of Wegovy

    Increase regulation of online sale of weight-loss jabs, pharmacists say

  • Various coloured ribbons shaped like question marks – representing different types of early-onset cancer

    Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?

  • Woman grocery shopping for wines in a supermarket.

    ‘Skinny jabs’ are turning slimmers teetotal – and drinks companies are feeling the loss

  • Weight-loss jabs linked to reduced risk of 42 conditions including dementia

  • After call to overhaul diagnosis of obesity, how can you tell if your weight is a problem?

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