British children are not getting shorter, despite claims to the contrary. In fact, they are getting taller. But this is not good news. When my colleagues and I analysed national data on child height, ...

More than 6,000 dangerously overweight kids have been treated at specialist NHS clinics in the last five years, according to figures that lay bare the scale of Britain's childhood obesity crisis.

Britain is starting to ‘turn the tide’ on obesity with weight loss jabs set to put decades of growth into reverse, experts say. A global analysis found the obesity crisis is slowing down or tapering ...