In a world where slimness is often equated with health, a new Danish study has flipped the narrative: being slightly overweight, or even mildly obese, may not be as deadly as once thought. In fact, in ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new report from UNICEF which blamed increasingly ...

Researchers from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark have discovered that individuals who are underweight face nearly a threefold higher risk of dying compared with those who are overweight or even ...

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New research presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting 2025 suggests that people who are underweight or at the lower end of a “healthy” body mass index (BMI) face ...

Around 10 per cent of children across the world are obese, surpassing - for the first time - the number of those who are underweight, a major study by children’s charity Unicef has found. Roughly 188 ...

Longevity diets often focus on going plant-based, but a study in China has linked eating meat to a long lifespan, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Underweight childhood cancer survivors made up about 1.1% of deaths. Underweight childhood cancer survivors had ...